366 datasets found

A crucial issue in addressing the problem of climate change is the impact of trade flows on any one country's domestic emissions generation (what governments are responsible for...

The physical structure of a city directly affects its temperature, wind, rain and air quality - which in turn influence human comfort and health. These connections were...

This climate change leadership fellowship addresses the need for new ways of framing problems of climate change, consumption and demand. To date, governments have sought to...

Cities are critical sites for responding to climate change. With over half the world’s population, cities are large sources of emissions of greenhouse gases and are vulnerable...

Resilience is the ability of a system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure. It involves three properties: the amount of change a system can...

Effective emissions reduction policies are required to avoid dangerous climate change. The redistributive impacts resulting from those policies will be relevant for their public...

Ships' engines generate global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions greater than those of the aviation industry, while also generating very large amounts of nitrogen oxides (NOx),...

The consumption behaviour of the populations of the world's richer societies poses a great challenge to the achievement of environmental sustainability. The programme of the...

The research seeks to explore how rural communities may be impacted by social and environmental changes associated with climate change. In particular it assesses the degree to...

After several decades of economic decline, mining's growing importance in many African economies has been welcomed, but the rate of sectoral transformation from rural agrarian...

The starting point is a concern that the debate about innovative low carbon/ low energy housing has been dominated by technologists, architects and interested parties. The aim...

If the UK is to meet increasingly ambitious targets for renewable energy, then much depends on what happens not just in England, but in the devolved administrations in Scotland,...

Research from Amazonia reveals how it supported large farming populations in pre-Hispanic times who improved their naturally infertile soils. Modern farmers value these soils...

Urban agriculture is an emerging field, the comprehensive understanding of which is best achieved through an interdisciplinary research approach. Utilising such a strategy, this...

The Climate Change Act (2008) places a legally binding requirement on the UK Government to set targets and report on progress on climate change emission reductions.The transport...

Despite the widespread belief that leading retailers in the UK enjoy some sort of monopoly power over suppliers of food, the retailers themselves retort that in reality they...

The Knowledge Exchange, Spatial Analysis and Healthy Urban Environment (KESUE) project has extended previous work from a project that examined the health impacts of a...

Biosecurity Borderlands seeks to investigate the practices, understandings and pressures created as biosecurity is extended into the British food system and landscape. The...

The proposed study explores the efficacy of an innovative bottom-up social marketing approach to encourage pro-environmental behaviour, using hairdressers as 'catalytic...

This research will investigate the extent to which local communities with histories of past extreme flooding events are better equipped practically and psychologically to cope...