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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Yorkshire integrated catchment solutions programme (iCASP) 1 January 2018 31 December 2022
Living Well within Limits (LiLi) Leverhulme Trust 1 January 2017 31 December 2021
GCRF African Science for Weather Information and Forecasting Techniques (Africa-SWIFT) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 October 2017 31 December 2021
Agricultural and Food-system Resilience: Increasing Capacity and Advising Policy (GCRF-AFRICAP) 1 October 2017 31 December 2020
Conservation Agriculture in Southern Africa 1 January 2016 31 December 2020
Harnessing Multiple Benefits from Resilient Mangrove Systems Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1 August 2017 31 August 2020
UK Energy Research Centre Phase 3 1 January 2014 31 December 2019
Refugia of Futures Past White Rose Collaboration Fund 1 October 2018 1 October 2019
Enhancing the benefits of tropical peatland restoration to support local communities and ecosystem processes Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1 August 2017 1 July 2019
Uncertainty reduction in Models For Understanding deveLopment Applications (UMFULA) NERC 1 June 2015 1 June 2019
Technology for Sustainability in Organisations: Case Studies in Agricultural Production (TECHSUS) EU Horizon 2020 1 May 2017 1 May 2019
Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Phase 2 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1 January 2013 31 December 2018
Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions 1 January 2013 31 December 2018

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
RECARE: preventing and remediating degradation of soils in Europe through land care 1 November 2013 1 October 2018
Governance of Low-carbon Innovation in Domestic Energy Retrofits (GLIDER) 1 February 2016 31 January 2018
Understanding land use, livelihoods and social-ecological change in rural Swaziland Leverhulme Trust 1 January 2014 31 December 2017
iBUILD: Infrastructure Business Models, Valuation and Innovation for Local Delivery Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1 September 2013 31 August 2017
Peatlands and the Public 1 September 2016 1 June 2017
Catastrophic shifts in drylands: how can we prevent ecosystem degradation? (CASCADE) 1 January 2012 31 December 2016
Multi-level governance, REDD+ and synergies between climate change mitigation and adaptation Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1 January 2014 31 December 2016
Water Harvesting for Rainfed Africa: investing in dryland agriculture for growth and resilience (WAHARA) 1 March 2011 29 January 2016
'Economics Of Land Degradation’ (ELD) initiative 1 January 2013 31 December 2014
Brewing up resilience in supply chains research network (BURNS) 1 July 2013 31 December 2014
Africa College Partnership 1 January 2008 31 December 2013
Private conservation and environmental governance Leverhulme Trust 1 March 2011 31 March 2013
How modern social science research helps shape public policy, market forces and social understanding: mapping influences and developing metrics for the digital-era HEFCE 1 June 2010 3 March 2013
Enhancing Research Impact on Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change (ERIMACC) Marie Curie Career Integration Grant 1 March 2011 28 February 2013
Assessing Institutional and Governance Partnerships for Climate-Compatible Development in sub-Saharan Africa 1 February 2012 1 January 2013
Climate Compatible Development: Building Partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa