Research: Climate Systems and Policy
Current Projects
- The Global Ecosystems Monitoring and Trait Study (GEM-TRAIT)
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Research Council (ERC); 2013-2018.
- Enhancing Risk Management Partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters (Enhance)
Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with 24 research partners. Financial support from the European Union FP7; 2013-2017.
- CLEVER: Closed Loop Emotionally Valuable E Waste Recovery
Dr Kersty Hobson in collaboration with the University of Bath. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2013-2016.
- Real time vehicle monitoring for energy efficiency in transport
Dr Christian Brand and Dr Russell Layberry. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2013.
- Assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in populous deltas
Professor Paul Whitehead and Dr Fai Fung in collaboration with the University of Southampton. Financial support from the NERC; 2012-2016.
- i-Coast - Integrated Coastal Systems
Professor Jim Hall. Financial support from NERC; 2012-2016.
- Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship
Professor Myles Allen and Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with several faculties in Oxford including Statistics, Philosophy and Physics. Financial support from the Oxford Martin School; 2012-2015.
- Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) Fellowship
Roger Street. Financial support from the NERC; 2012-2013.
- Qualifying carbon - building trust and credibility in REDD+ through reflexive, multi-level governance
Dr Thomas Thornton and Dr Connie McDermott. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2012-2013.
- Variation of carbon allocation with rainfall, temperature and elevation
Prof. Yadvinder Malhi and Dr Toby Marthews. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2012-2013.
- Besafe - Biodiversity and ecosystem services: arguments for our future environment
Dr Paula Harrison and Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the European Commission; 2011-2015.
- Geocarbons - An operational integrated global carbon observation and analysis system
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Commission; 2011-2014.
- Long term dynamics of interdependent infrastructure systems
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2011-2015.
- Does shifting carbon use efficiency determine the growth rates of intact and disturbed tropical forests? Gathering new evidence from African forests
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2011-2014.
- Oxford climate research network stakeholder engagement initiative
Professor Myles Allen. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2011-2014.
- Oxford water security research network
Professor Jim Hall. Financial support from the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford; 2011-2012.
- Eco-renovation: technology transfer events
Jo Hamilton. Financial support from Oxford City Council; 2011-2013.
- Large area effects of dry season and drought on the structure, composition and function of forests in the Western Amazon Basin
Professor Yadvinder Malhi in collaboration with the University of Leeds. Financial support from the Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation; 2011-2012.
- Climate change, deforestation and the future of African rainforests
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Waterloo Foundation; 2011.
- Development of canopy observatory at Wytham Woods to monitor climate and understand long-term carbon balance of ancient semi-natural woodland
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from Natural England; 2011.
- Partnership for Canada Caribbean community climate change adaptation
Professor Mark New. Financial support from CaribSave; 2011.
- Pre-cursor to the Virtual Observatory Initiative
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from CEH Oxford; 2011.
- UK National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) - England synthesis
Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from Countryside Council for Wales, Defra, ESRC, NERC; Northern Ireland Environment Agency, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government; 2011.
- Understanding the implications of climate change for woodland biodiversity and community functioning
Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the Forestry Commission, 2011.
- Carbon monitoring through the SAFE project (Malaysia)
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from Rainforest Research SDN BHD; 2010-2015.
- DO4 Models: Dust observation
Professor Richard Washington, Dr Giles Wiggs and Professor David S.G. Thomas in collaboration with University of Sheffield and Imperial College London and University of Cape Town; Financial support from NERC; 2010-2015.
- ADEPT: Advanced dynamic energy pricing and tariffs
Dr Sarah Darby in collaboration with the Oxford e-Research Centre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2010-2013.
- Biological controls on soil respiration and its climatic response across a large tropical elevation gradient
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2013.
- CLIMSAVE: Climate change integrated assessment methodology for cross-sectoral adaptation and vulnerability in Europe
Dr Paula Harrison with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2010-2013.
- Building expertise: a system of professions approach to implementing sustainable strategies
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2010-2013.
- Fennec - The Saharan climate system
Professor Richard Washington in collaboration with the University of Leeds, UCL, Imperial College London and the University of Reading. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2013.
- Floods and droughts: environmental dynamics in the upper Zambezi Valley
Professor David S.G. Thomas and Dr Sallie Burrough in collaboration with the Dept of Zoology, Oxford. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2010-2013.
- Developments after a disaster: the tsunami, poverty, conflict and reconstruction in Sri Lanka
Dr Kamal Kapadia. Financial support from the ESRC; 2010-2012.
- UNLOC: Understanding local and community governance of energy
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2012.
- CARIBSAVE Climate change risk atlas
Professor Mark New and Dr Murray Simpson. Financial support from DfID; 2010-2011.
- CLIMATEGOV: Managing interactions between international agreements: dealing with diversity in global climate governance
Dr Heike Schroeder. Financial support from the European Commission; 2010-2011.
- Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation - West Africa
Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Dr Constance McDermott and Dr Lauren Coad with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2011.
- EMBEDS: Embedding biodiversity adaptation principles
Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from Defra; 2010-2011.
- Low carbon learning series
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from the High Commission of Canada; 2010-2011.
- Oxfordshire United: from Wembley to Rio - inspiring a county to win the green gold
Ian Curtis in collaboration with Oxford United Football Club. Financial support from the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts; 2010-2011.
- Regional climate reports for east Africa, west Africa and Indo-Gangetic plain: current trends and future projections
Professor Richard Washington. Financial support from the International Livestock Research Institute; 2010-2011.
- Scenarios development component of the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) Programme
John Ingram in collaboration the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and multiple research partners. Financial support from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP); 2010-2011.
- Valuing, implementing and evaluating payments for ecosystems services in rural West Africa
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2011.
- UKERC - Energy demand
Dr Nick Eyre in collaboration with the Universities of Bath, Aberdeen, UCK and Glasgow. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2014.
- ARCC Coordination Network (ACN)
UKCIP is a core partner. Financial support from EPSRC, LWEC and ERSC; 2009-2013.
- Catchment change network: a professional development platform for decision-making for adaptation and uncertain environmental change
Professor Jim Hall. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2013.
- ARCADIA: Adaptation and resilience in cities: analysis and decision making using integrated assessment
Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with UCL. Financial support from EPSRC; 2009-2012.
- ARCC-Water: Adaptive and resilient water systems
Professor Mark New and Dr Fai Fung in collaboration with HR Wallingford, Lancaster University, Exeter University, UCL and Loughborough University. Financial support from EPSRC; 2009-2012.
- The dynamics and carbon implications of fires in the Andes
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2012.
- Climate solidarity evaluation
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Defra; 2009-2011.
- Dangerous climate change assessment project
Professor Mark New. Financial support from the Wallace Global Fund; 2009-2011.
- Geographies of energy transition
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from ERSC; 2009-2011.
- Local climate impacts profile
Dr Chris West. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council; 2009-2011.
- Moving to a low carbon economy under different economic circumstances
Dr Jimin Zhao. Financial support from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Strategic Programme Fund; 2009-2011.
- Sustainable behaviours and technology
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Electricite de France (EDF); 2009-2011.
- Understanding the social impacts of UK climate policies
Dr Christian Brand and Dr Karen Lucas in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Energy and University of Bristol. Financial support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; 2009-2011.
- AMAZONICA: Amazon integrated carbon analysis
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2008-2014.
- iConnect: Impact of constructing non motorised networks and evaluating changes in travel
Dr Christian Brand and Dr Tim Jones in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from EPSRC; 2008-2013.
- CLUE: Social impacts of policy and climate change
Dr Tom Thornton. Financial support from the US National Science Foundation; 2008-2012.
- RAINFOR: Understanding of the carbon balance of Amazon forests
Professor Yadvinder Malhi with multiple research partners. Financial support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; 2008-2012.
- Quantifying carbon cycling research at Wytham Woods
Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Terhi Riutta in collaboration with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Financial support from the Smithsonian Institution and HSBC Climate Partnership; 2008-2012.
- Environmental policy challenges for the 21st Century - centre for tropical forest science and policy
Professor Diana Liverman and Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Oxford Martin School / James Martin Institute; 2008-2011.
- Flood risk management consortium
Professor Jim Hall in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2008-2011.
- imeasure: energy monitoring tool
Dr Russell Layberry and Catherine Bottrill. Financial support from the UK Energy Research Centre; 2008-2011.
- Interactions between climate, forests and land use in the Amazon basin
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; 2008-2011.
- Quantifying the variation of woodland carbon dynamics and plant ecology in the upper Thames area
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Earthwatch Institute (Europe); 2008-2011.
- SMEasure: energy monitoring tool
Dr Russell Layberry and Catherine Bottrill. Financial support from the UK Energy Research Centre and NERC; 2008-2011.
- Sustainable agricultural production systems: the case of arabica coffee
Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from Illycaffe spa; 2008-2011.
- Degree days for energy management
Dr Russell Layberry. Financial support from the UKERC/BMT; 2007-2011.
- RAPID-WATCH
Professor Myles Allen in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2007-2011.
- Expert assistance in the area of transport, emissions, environment and scenario building
Prof. David Banister, Dr Christian Brand and Dr Moshe Givoni in collaboration with European Environment Agency, Transport Research Laboratory and IFOK, Berlin. Funded by the European Environment Agency and the Transport Research Laboratory; 2006-2011
- TROBIT: Tropical biomes in transition
Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Professor Mark New with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2006-2011.
- SuperGen: How will the electricity network function if there are millions of small scale distributed electricity generators?
Dr Brenda Boardman and Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from EPSRC; 2005-2013.
- cRRescendo: Combined rational and renewable energy strategies in cities, for existing and new dwellings to ensure optimal quality of life
Dr Brenda Boardman and Dr Nick Eyre with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2005-2011.
- UK Climate Impacts Programme
Professor Diana Liverman and Dr Chris West. Financial support from the Defra; 2005-2011.
- UKERC: Energy demand
Dr Nick Eyre and Dr Christian Brand in collaboration with the University of Bath, University College London and University of Aberdeen. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2014.
- UKERC - The Meeting Place
Dr Brenda Boardman, Dr Nick Eyre and Jennifer Otoadese with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2014.
Recent Projects
- Climate change drivers - key attributes
Dr Chris West. Financial support from Department of Energy and Climate Change; 2010.
- RECCE: The resilience of ecosystems to environmental change
Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with the University of Nottingham. Financial support from Defra; 2010.
- Building resilience to climate change (UKCIP)
Dr Chris West. Financial support from Oxfordshire County Council; 2009-2010.
- Carbon sticks and flux in the Congo basin
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; 2009-2010.
- Climate risk case study: Muelles el Bosque project
Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from Climate Risk Management Ltd; 2009-2010.
- Development of building energy and carbon management software tool for business and research
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from NERC; 2009-2010.
- Expert assessment of dangerous climate change for natural and agro-ecological systems
Professor Mark New. Financial support from the UK Meteorological Office; 2009-2010.
- Impacts of climate change on Burham Beeches
Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the City of London; 2009-2010.
- Understanding the factors influencing the practical application of the UKCP09 to land management for environmental benefit
Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with HR Wallingford and Cranfield University. Financial support from Defra; 2009-2010.
- Benefits realisation: improve awareness of Wake on Lan
Dr Nick Eyre and Howard Noble, OUCS. Financial support from Joint Information Systems Committee; 2009.
- Ghana hospitals power systems
Dr Chris Jardine. Financial support from the Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation; 2009.
- Human displacement, forced migration and climate change: exploring the politics of rights, sovereignty and citizenship
Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the ERSC; 2009.
- Monitoring and evaluating low carbon communities network
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Low Carbon Communities Network; 2009.
- Nepal climate scenarios
Professor Mark New. Financial support from DfID; 2009.
- A study on the potential role of soil organic carbon in the value of site and national REDD projects
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from Conservation International Foundation; 2008-2009.
- Developing country level climate profiles
Professor Mark New and Dr Carol McSweeney. Financial support from National Communications Support Programme (NCSP) and the UN Development Programme; 2008-2009.
- Governing climate change beyond the international regime: city actions in China
Dr Jimin Zhao. Financial support from the John Fell Fund and Oxford Martin School; 2008-2009.
- Governing climate change in global cities: a case study of Beijing
Dr Jimin Zhao in collaboration with Beijing Academy of Environmental Sciences, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change; 2008-2009.
- North east climate change biodiversity study
Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with AEA and KBA. Financial support from AEA Technology Plc; 2008-2009.
- Separating soil respiration into autotrophic and hetertropic components in Peruvian montane rain forest
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2008-2009.
- Task force on energy efficiency and urban development
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Simon Fraser University; 2008-2009.
- The contribution of products to meeting UK climate change targets
Dr Nick Eyre. Financial support from Defra; 2008-2009.
- The impacts of long droughts on water resources
Dr Chris West. Financial support from HR Wallingford; 2008-2009.
- Reconnaisance trip - Biomass and carbon stocks in the tropical forests of Gabon
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the World Wildlife Fund UK; 2008.
- Domestic energy feedback
Dr Nick Eyre and Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from ERSC; 2007-2010.
- Low carbon ICT
Dr Nick Eyre and Howard Noble, OUCS. Financial support from Joint Information Systems Committee; 2007-2010.
- Climate and ecosystem dynamics in an Andean to Amazon transect
Professor Yadvinder Malhi and Professor Mark New in collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, San Antonio Abad and Wake Forest University. Financial support from NERC, Moore Foundation, Microsoft Research and the John Fell Fund; 2007-2009.
- Climate governance post-2012: options for EU policy-making
Harro van Asselt in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2007-2009.
- ESA - Biomass
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Space Agency; 2007-2009.
- Feedback on energy use
Dr Sarah Darby. Financial support from the UK Department For Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; 2007-2009.
- How do global cities mitigate climate change?
Dr Heike Schroeder in collaboration with the University of Durham. Financial support from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; 2007-2009.
- Theorising carbon markets and development
Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2007-2009.
- Nottingham reducing emissions
Dr Chris West. Financial support from the Carbon Trust; 2007-2008.
- Vulnerability and adaption of food systems to global environmental change
Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the ERSC; 2007-2008.
- GECAFS: Global environmental change and food systems
Professor Diana Liverman and John Ingram in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC and the United Nations; 2006-2011.
- MILLENNIUM: European climate of the last millennium
Professor Myles Allen with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2006-2010.
- A detailed assessment of ecosystem carbon dynamics along an elevation transect
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2006-2009.
- QUERCC: Quantifying and understanding ecosystems role in the carbon cycle
Professor Yadvinder Malhi in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from NERC; 2006-2009.
- RUBICODE: Rationalising biodiversity conservation in dynamic ecosystems
Dr Paula Harrison in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2006-2009.
- Tyndall Phase 2: Research Programme 1: Informing international climate policy
Professor Diana Liverman and Professor Mark New in collaboration with the University of East Anglia. Financial support from Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research; 2006-2009.
- Tyndall Phase 2: Research Programme 4: Climate change and development
Professor David S.G. Thomas and Professor Richard Washington; in collaboration with the University of East Anglia and University of Reading. Financial support from Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research; 2006-2009.
- MACIS: Minimisation of and adaptation to climate change impacts on biodiversity
Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with multiple partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2006-2008.
- Oxfordshire Climate-X-Change
Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from Defra; 2006-2008.
- Downstream carbon trading
Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust; 2006-2007.
- Assessing the impacts of the recent Amazonian drought
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2006.
- 21st Century Schools
Professor Diana Liverman. Financial support from the James Martin Institute; 2005-2009.
- APPLES: Alleviation of poverty through the provision of local energy services
Dr Brenda Boardman with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2005-2008.
- Climate impact on building design
Dr Chris West. Financial support from the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and UK Department For Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; 2005-2008.
- BodEx 2005 - A multidisciplinary study of the 'dustiest place on earth'
Professor Richard Washington and Dr Sebastian Engelsteadter, in collaboration with UCL, Birkbeck College London, Salford University and Direction des Ressources en Eau et de la Météorologie, N'Djamena. Financial support from the Gilchrist Educational Trust and the Royal Geographical Society; 2005-2006.
- Reducing the environmental impact of housing
Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from the Royal Commission of Enviromental Pollution; 2005-2006.
- Target monitoring of atmospheric pollution and climate change impacts on biodiversity
Dr Pam Berry. Financial support from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; 2005-2006.
- Building market transformation
Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2004-2009.
- ENSEMBLES: Ensemble based predictions of climate changes and their impacts
Professor Myles Allen and Professor Mark New in collaboration with multiple research partners. Financial support from the European Commission; 2004-2009.
- UKERC: Demand reduction
Dr Brenda Boardman and Catherine Bottrill. Financial support from the ERSC; 2004-2009.
- Accelerated tree growth in Amazonia: ecological changes and environmental drivers
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2008.
- Dryland change: past, present, future (IGCP500)
Professor David Thomas and Dr Matt Telfer. Financial support from UNESCO; 2004-2008.
- Why do different Amazonian forests grow at different rates?
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from NERC; 2004-2008.
- BRANCH: Biodiversity requires adaptations in north west Europe under a changing climate
Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with English Heritage and others. Financial support from the European Commission; 2004-2007.
- PAN-AMAZONIA: Project for the advancement of networked science in Amazonia
Professor Yadvinder Malhi. Financial support from the European Commission; 2004-2007.
- Wittenham Clumps heritage landscape project: future landscape scenarios
Dr Pam Berry in collaboration with the Northmoor Trust and Stockholm Environment Institute. Financial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund; 2004-2006.
- Technical and social evaluation of photovoltaics
Dr Brenda Boardman. Financial support from BOC Group; 2003-2006.
- MONARCH: Modelling natural resource responses to climate change
Dr Pam Berry and Dr Paula Harrison in collaboration with ADAS (Phase 1 only), British Trust for Ornithology (Phase 1 only), and CABI Bioscience (Phase 2 and 3). Financial support from English Nature and others; 1999-2006.
