Centre in Understanding and Managing Natural & Environmental Risks

As a cross-cutting aspect of Living With Environmental Change, LWEC partners have identified a number of risks and the way we deal with them. The Collaborative Centre of Excellence in Understanding and Managing Natural and Environmental Risks - The Risk Centre - is the focus for research, training, education and consultancy in strategic environmental risk appraisal. Based at Cranfield University, the £1.2M Centre will enable improved management of risk through focussing on better understanding the public responses to perceived risks in areas such as natural and man-made hazards, extreme events, and new and emerging diseases. http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/risk/index.jsp

Living With Environmental Change partners involved:

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
• Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)