Environment and Sustainability
Focus Area Lead
Professor Robert Marchant
Robert Marchant is Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography. His research covers the fields of biogeography, ecology, palaeoecology and ecosystem modelling.
Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FS-Net Africa)
FSNet-Africa aims to design and implement food systems research in partnership with stakeholders to identify solutions that can bring about sustainable change in African food systems.
Tropical peatland climate resilience
Tropical peatland climate resilience: transforming governance of climate risks for poverty reduction in Indonesia, Peru and the Congo Basin
Development Corridors Partnership
Funded by the UK Research Council’s Global Challenges Research Fund the Development Corridors Partnership began in October 2017 and will end in December 2021. The Partnership will build capacity to address concerns about development corridors by encouraging scientific collaboration and stakeholder engagement in key issues of corridor planning and management.
Mountain futures
In an era characterized by climate change, economic shifts, and transformative societal dynamics, mountainous regions face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The Mountain Working Group emphasises the need for positive narratives and seeks to exchange innovative ideas to imagine and shape new responses to the ongoing unprecedented climate-driven social-ecological changes in mountain areas.
POLARIZE
A political-economic analysis of electricity grid access histories and futures in Mozambique (POLARIZE) aims to improve livelihoods primarily in urban and peri-urban communities. The project is run in partnership with three organisations in Mozambique: the Centre for Research on Governance and Development (CPGD), Observatorio do Meio Rural (OMR) and University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM).
Adaptation and resilience to climate change
A SIDA-funded project is unravelling the past 500 years to guide the future assessment of pastoral - agricultural - conservation interactions across the Serengeti landscape
Fishing for the Future (F4F) - Royal Society FLAIR Fellow - Dr Edem Mahu
Due to declining oyster populations across West African mangroves this project aims to assure a sustainable livelihood of the many women dependent on this resource, by understanding how changing climate coupled with environmental pollution are likely to affect the current and future of the Oyster fisheries.
Refugia of Futures Past
The aim of this project is to initiate a long-term interdisciplinary collaboration to explore the baseline conditions for Earth habitability under long-term future global environmental change to influence adaptation research, policy, and practice.