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Talking cleanliness in health and agriculture
The threat to human and animal health posed by a rise in infectious diseases, a decrease in antimicrobial resistance and the risk of zoonoses (diseases transmitted continuously... -
Autonomous geographies: Activism and everyday life in the city
The focus of this 2-year project (jointly managed between the University of Leeds and University of Leicester) is what we call 'autonomous geographies' - spaces where there is a... -
Engaging with rivers in a period of uncertainty
The sustainability of communities will be closely associated with their use of water. In particular, people will need to have a well-informed relationship with their local... -
Identities and Regeneration in the Former Coalfields of East Durham
This research explores the relationship between identities and regeneration in the former coalfields of East Durham, UK. It looks at how public policies and funding programmes... -
Friends of the Earth International: Negotiating a North-South Identity
Environmental problems cross national boundaries. Answers to these problems often lie outside the politics of nation-states. To be successful in addressing these problems often... -
Innovation in Peripheral Areas
Innovation is usually seen to take place in urban areas which offer many opportunities for interaction between different individuals and organisations, including firms,... -
Investigating the pollution content of trade flows and the importance of 'env...
A crucial issue in addressing the problem of climate change is the impact of trade flows on any one country's domestic emissions generation (what governments are responsible for... -
Climate Science in Urban Design: A historical and comparative study of applie...
The physical structure of a city directly affects its temperature, wind, rain and air quality - which in turn influence human comfort and health. These connections were... -
Transitions in practice: climate change and everyday life
This climate change leadership fellowship addresses the need for new ways of framing problems of climate change, consumption and demand. To date, governments have sought to... -
Urban Transitions: climate change, global cities and the transformation of so...
Cities are critical sites for responding to climate change. With over half the world’s population, cities are large sources of emissions of greenhouse gases and are vulnerable... -
Resilient development in social ecological systems
Resilience is the ability of a system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure. It involves three properties: the amount of change a system can... -
Who emits most? An analysis of UK households' CO2 emissions and their associa...
Effective emissions reduction policies are required to avoid dangerous climate change. The redistributive impacts resulting from those policies will be relevant for their public... -
Effectiveness of international regulation of pollution controls: the case of ...
Ships' engines generate global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions greater than those of the aviation industry, while also generating very large amounts of nitrogen oxides (NOx),... -
Sustainable Practices Research Group
The consumption behaviour of the populations of the world's richer societies poses a great challenge to the achievement of environmental sustainability. The programme of the... -
Adaptations to rural communities through living with climate change
The research seeks to explore how rural communities may be impacted by social and environmental changes associated with climate change. In particular it assesses the degree to... -
Urban growth and poverty in mining africa
After several decades of economic decline, mining's growing importance in many African economies has been welcomed, but the rate of sectoral transformation from rural agrarian... -
Consumer perspectives in low energy/ low carbon housing: a video and interact...
The starting point is a concern that the debate about innovative low carbon/ low energy housing has been dominated by technologists, architects and interested parties. The aim... -
Delivering renewable energy under devolution
If the UK is to meet increasingly ambitious targets for renewable energy, then much depends on what happens not just in England, but in the devolved administrations in Scotland,... -
Anthropogenic dark Earths in Africa?
Research from Amazonia reveals how it supported large farming populations in pre-Hispanic times who improved their naturally infertile soils. Modern farmers value these soils... -
Urban food production and health risk management
Urban agriculture is an emerging field, the comprehensive understanding of which is best achieved through an interdisciplinary research approach. Utilising such a strategy, this...