Resources challenge
Resources challenge
UK Water Research and Innovation Framework Launched
The UK Water Research and Innovation Framework is launched with the support of RCUK's Living With Environmental Change Champion, Dan Osborn.
Seaweed's Big Comeback?
200 years ago, in Napoleon’s heyday, burning seaweed was a lifeline for communities in the Western Isles cut off by war from their usual sources of fuel. Two centuries later, is the wheel turning full circle? The joint UK-Irish BioMara project, funded by the INTERREG IVA programme and accredited by LWEC, is assessing whether seaweed could be gathered or cultivated there and turned into biogas for heating or liquid biofuels for transport.
Land Use - How to push the right policy buttons
Computer-based tools for better decision-making.
Understanding a decision’s impact for policy-makers is an imperative that never goes away. Take a policy to change land use. It won’t just affect farmers’ incomes and grain prices. Any resulting increase in fertiliser use, for instance, could have knock-on effects as diverse as they are far-reaching, from changes in water quality and local biodiversity to increased greenhouse gas emissions.
In for the Krill
Protection for marine life relies on evidence from an LWEC stock-taking activity
2009 saw a milestone in marine conservation. A 94,000km2 area of ocean, south of the South Orkney Islands which lie just 600km from Antarctica, was designated a Marine Protected Area – the first in the world located entirely within the High Seas.
Nutrients on the move
Helping the water and agricultural industries plan for chemicals on the move.
Nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon underpin the health and growth of all plants and animals. But what impact will rising temperatures and different rainfall patterns caused by climate change have on the way these three ‘macronutrients’ move through the environment – and what would this mean for water quality, food supply and vital ecosystems?
Minerals and Waste
The Minerals and Waste programme is run by the British Geological Survey, in partnership with others (see below), in order to address the need for the UK to secure a sustainable supply of minerals and energy, in the face of the population increa
Groundwater Science
What is the activity?
Farming for clean water
Farmers across England explore new practices to improve water quality.
Owen Tarrant on the Citizen’s Advisory Forum
I have to admit that I did question myself “why did I just do that?” as I put up my hand, volunteering myself to act in the role of the so called ‘expert’ speaker on flood risk at the first session of Living with Environmental Change Citizens’ Forum.
UK Flood & Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Research Strategy
Living With Environmental Change's first UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Strategy was published in Jan 2012 and can be downloaded below.
The strategy identifies priority research topics under 3 broad themes: Understanding Risk, Managing Probability and Managing Consequences of flooding. It also highlights some of the delivery challenges ahead.