Objectives
The Living with Environmental Change programme has 6 strategic objectives. Many of the accredited activities respond to more than one objective.
A. To predict the impacts of climate change and to promote sustainable solutions through mitigation and adaptation
To build effective mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change, including preparedness for changes to the intensity and frequency of extreme events, so that human health, well-being, and a healthy natural environment are ensured through use of sustainable and socially acceptable environmental management approaches and technologies.
B. To manage ecosystem services for human well-being and to protect the natural environment in a changing world
To assess the links and feedbacks between the natural environment, ecosystem services and human well-being; how these might continue to develop within environmental limits in the face of major environmental change; and how decision-making and local and national planning can take account of these links and feedbacks to help in the development of new social, environmental and economic opportunities.
C. To promote human well-being, alleviate poverty and minimise waste by ensuring a sustainable supply of food and water
To promote human well-being, alleviate poverty and minimise waste by developing sustainable ecosystem management approaches for safe and secure food production and water supply.
D. To protect human, plant and animal health from diseases, pests and hazards in a changing environment
To protect human, plant and animal health by predicting how diseases, pests, hazards and other environmental factors will alter under forthcoming environmental change scenarios, assessing which sectors of society are most at risk and determining what management actions need to be taken.
E. To make infrastructure, the built environment and transport systems resilient to environmental change, less carbon intensive and more socially acceptable
To make infrastructure, the built environment and transport systems resilient to environmental change and develop more sustainable, less energy-intensive systems and approaches that are socially acceptable, economically advantageous and more environmentally harmonious.
F. To understand how people respond to a changing environment and develop thriving, cohesive and informed communities
To work with the diverse communities of the UK to understand how, on the basis of our various cultural backgrounds and belief systems, we live with our environment at present, how this is likely to alter as the environment changes, and how we might use this knowledge to develop thriving, cohesive and informed communities.
