Social challenge
Social challenge
Redefining Resilience
An LWEC fellow writes a challenging new book on responses to climate change.
Major transformation will be an ongoing feature of our lives if we are to deal effectively with climate change. That is the view being developed by LWEC accredited fellow, Professor Katrina Brown, at the University of East Anglia. In a new book to be published this year (2012) Professor Brown explains why most decision-makers are mistaken if they think policy interventions or investment alone will be enough to develop resilience to climate change.
Snakes and Ladders to the Rescue
Landscape and Environment Programme
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 (SPRG)
What is this activity?
Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group (SLRG)
What is the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group?
The Business of Sustainability
Helping businesses to improve their environmental performance.
Rising to the Low-Carbon Challenge
Finding the best green energy solution for different UK communities.
Social and Environmental Economic Research (SEER) into Multi-Objective Land Use Decision Making
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
b) the second round, dynamic consequences of that change which may in turn generate multiple feedbacks on the environment.
Resilient development in social science ecological systems
What is the 'Resilient development in social science ecosystems' project?
This is a Professorial Fellowship held by Professor Katrina Brown at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia.(2009-2012)
See story on LWEC website.
What is meant by resilience?
Low Carbon Communities Challenge
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 was a two-year research programme designed to test delivery options through practical delivery on the ground at community level.
To get a quick sense of what the project was all about: