We use a range of research methods to help understand the world of interconnected systems. Our work focuses on addressing emerging local and global challenges at the interface between natural capital (such as natural resources or biodiversity) and human systems (including communities and the finance system) to ensure a sustainable future.
CUSP works with people, policy, and businesses to develop a new definition of prosperity that complements a world of environmental, social and economic limits.
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EEIST aims to develop complexity-based modelling solutions to help governments facilitate low-carbon innovation and technological change.
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The Global Chaos Map Project offers insights into patterns of violent social unrest arising from disruption of access to natural resources.
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The GRO project investigated how the scarcity of finite natural resources will impact global social, financial and political fragility in the short term.
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The Debating Nature's Value project created a dynamic, diverse network of experts and stakeholders to collaborate and debate the issues around natural capital.
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Heritage-led Resilience investigates relationships between climate change, conflict, displacement, and the cultural heritage of Syrian refugees in Jordan.
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Connect4 explores the links between water resources and communities in four countries of the Limpopo Basin in southern Africa.
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UKUH aims to improve understanding of the potential environmental, social and economic impacts of unconventional hydrocarbon development in the UK.
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The UK Global Food Security Taskforce was commissioned to produce a report on food system resilience in the face of changing weather (PDF).
MEDEAS
MEDEAS aims to develop an advanced modelling tool to create, modify and test policies to support the transition to a more sustainable European Energy system.
BARIN
BARIN aims to better understand the social and ecological impacts of the North-American beaver Castor canadensis' range expansion in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada.
ESCALATION
ESCALATION disseminated the findings from a new framework developed to explain local communities' level of support for climate change adaptation policies.
FIDELIO
FIDELIO explored socio-economic impacts of European protected areas and predicted how perceptions of these impacts would change through time.
Sustainability East
Sustainability East was a doctoral studentship that facilitated debate and action on sustainable housing development in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Director, Global Sustainability Institute