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Living with environmental uncertainty

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Living with environmental uncertainty

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  • Cabot's Paul Bates to help Royal Society to review human resilience to climate change [01 Oct 13]
    A new review by the Royal Society aims to investigate human resilience to climate change to help inform the important decisions regarding adaptation and risk reduction that are being made at global, national and local levels. Cabot Institute member Prof Paul Bates will be sitting on the working group for the project.
  • Bristol scientists contribute to IPCC Working Group I Report [27 Sep 13]
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I, which assesses the physical scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change, has presented its contribution to the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report in Stockholm today. A number of Cabot Institute researchers from the University of Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences have been directly involved in the Working Group 1 report.
  • Users needed to test Green Doors app [25 Sep 13]
    The University of Bristol’s Department of Computer Science has been working with Bristol Green Doors to produce an Android and iPhone smartphone application for this year’s open homes event and members of the public are being asked to test it over the weekend [28 and 29 September].
  • EU research project will improve the exploitation of open access data for water sectors [23 Sep 13]
    A collaborative European research team that includes Cabot Institute Professors Thorsten Wagener and Dawei Han from the Department of Civil Engineering, and Prof Jim Freer from the School of Geographical Sciences, have been awarded €6 million by the European Commission for a three-year project named SWITCH-ON (Sharing Water-related Information to Tackle Changes in the Hydrosphere - for Operational Needs).