Living with Environmental Change: Societal Challenge

Nature's trail attracts new followers

Ruth Welters — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:23:28 +0000

People from all walks of life become climate change investigators.

Landscape and Environment Programme

Ruth Welters — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:08:17 +0000

Landscape and environment are currently of compelling cultural significance.

The AHRC Landscape and Environment Programme was launched in 2005 to develop an arts and humanities understanding of landscape and environment in distinctive, innovative and engaging ways.

Sustainable Practices Research Group

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:32:57 +0000

What is this activity?

Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:30:57 +0000

What is the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group?

The Business of Sustainability

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:38:57 +0000

Helping businesses to improve their environmental performance.

Rising to the Low-Carbon Challenge

Javier Delgado — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:49:21 +0000

Finding the best green energy solution for different UK communities.

Social and Environmental Economic Research (SEER) into Multi-Objective Land Use Decision Making

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:23:42 +0000

What is the 'Decision-Making about Land Use' project?

The question behind this project is 'What is the optimal use of land?

What will the project do?

The project will develop a new way of simultaneously assessing

a) the primary economic effects of policy, market or environmental change on land use and

Resilient development in social science ecological systems

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:19:55 +0000

What is the 'Resilient development in social science ecosystems' project?

This is a Fellowship held by Professor Katrina Brown at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia.

What is meant by resilience?

Reslience is the ability of a system to absorb a disturbance and still retain its basic structure and function. This involves three properties:
a) the amount of change a system can undergo
b) the degree to which it can reorganise

Low Carbon Communities Challenge

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:03:28 +0000

What is the programme about?

The Low Carbon Communities Challenge is an innovative approach to policy development being taken forward by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), working alongside a number of government departments. Recognising that Government doesn’t necessarily know the best means of helping people cut their carbon emissions, the LCCC is a two-year research programme designed to test delivery options through practical delivery on the ground at community level.

Flood, vulnerability and urban resilience

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:58:13 +0000

Flood, vulnerability and urban resilience: a real-time study of local recovery following the floods of June 2007 in Hull

What was the study about?

This research ran for two years between 2007 and 2009. Using diaries, interviews and group discussions, the study followed the recovery experiences of people across Hull after the floods of June 2007 which affected over 8,600 households across the city.

It had the following objectives:

ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellowships

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:55:44 +0000

What are the Climate Change Leadership Fellowships?

Climate change has contributed to a rise of both policy and research debates, within the UK and internationally.

These six leadership fellows propose innovative approaches and application of leading edge social science to addressing key research issues in mitigating and/or adapting to climate change.

The Climate Change Leadership Fellows are:

Business Relationships Accountability, Sustainability and Society Centre

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:42:48 +0000

What is the Business Relationships Accountability, Sustainability and Society Centre?

BRASS is a joint venture between Cardiff University’s School of City and Regional Planning, Business School, and Law School.

What does BRASS do?

Local Government Association

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:04:14 +0000

In 1997, local government came together and created the Local Government Association to be its voice in the national arena. Based in Westminster, close to the Houses of Parliament and Whitehall, the LGA is a voluntary lobbying organisation, acting as the voice of the local government sector, and an authoritative and effective advocate on its behalf.

Adapting Rural Living and Land Use to Environmental Change (Relu)

Javier Delgado — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:25:01 +0000

What is the Relu Programme?

The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (Relu) aims to advance understanding of the challenges that rural areas in the UK face, using interdisciplinary research to inform policy and practice with choices on how to manage the countryside and rural economies.

Adapting Rural Living and Land Use to Environmental Change projects

Societal challenge

Javier Delgado — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:44:08 +0000

To understand the role of government, business and society in enabling all to live with environmental change.