Global Change
Welcome to the global change research theme
Bristol is home to a large and diverse community of scholars focused on delivering world-class research in the area of global change. Research interests span subjects and departments across the Faculties of Science, Engineering, Arts, Social Sciences and Law.
The global change research theme brings together this expertise to deliver leading, multidisciplinary research on climate change and the environment.
Aims
The global change research theme aims to:
- improve our understanding of climate and environmental change processes
- better predict future changes and their impact on human society, and
- help develop technological and policy tools required for society to address environmental and economic concerns.
Our research
Global change research focuses on the following areas:
- Climatic and biological lessons from the history of the Earth
- Soils, terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycles and food security
- Impacts on the marine environment and ecosystems
- Climate and communities: adaptation and resilience
- Legal and regulatory responses to global change
- Mitigating climate change: bio- geo-engineering solutions
- Responses of individuals, species and ecosystems to global change
More about global change
Global change events
5 June 2013, 4 pm - Dr Manoj Joshi (University of East Anglia)
9 - 10 September - 2nd Workshop on Pliocene climate
Contact us
Please contact global change leader Professor Rich Pancost with any enquiries about the global change research theme.