Dr Linda Speight featured on Radio 4's You and Yours, discussing flood risk decision-making. Listen from 29:53 or full segment from 22:53.
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Professor Yadvinder Malhi awarded prestigious Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology
The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the University of Oxford is delighted to announce that Professor Yadvinder Malhi has been awarded the prestigious Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology, one of the world’s foremost honours in ecological science.
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Festival of Politics 2025 – In Conversation with Danny Dorling
One of the highlights of this year’s Festival of Politics was a wide-ranging ‘In Conversation’ session with SoGE's Danny Dorling. The event took place in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
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Celebrating our graduates: dissertation and final year project awards
A huge congratulations to our recent graduates that have received internal departmental awards for their exceptional dissertations, end of year projects and field work. Read about our prize winners' work, their findings and what inspired them to undertake these thought-provoking and often deeply personal projects.
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Cities for cycling: what is needed beyond good will and cycle paths?
Dr Zakiyya Adam, Research Associate at the Transport Studies Unit, outlines recommendations for the implementation of cycling-promoting initiatives in mid-sized European cities.
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ACCE Wins Prestigious "Star of Discovery" at Global Heritage Education Awards
Congratulations to the Academy of Conservation and Care for Environment (ACCE) initiative, who have been awarded the prestigious 'Star of Discovery' at the 2025 Global Awards for World Heritage Education Innovative Cases (AWHEIC).
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How the UK’s cold weather payments need to change to help prevent people freezing in winter
In The Conversation, Dr Tina Fawcett (ECI) and co-authors welcome recent changes to the UK’s Cold Weather Payment system, but urge more to be done to support vulnerable households during freezing conditions.
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Decoding Dust Storms: Namibia’s Etosha Pan Reveals Global Climate Connections
New research shows that dust storms over Etosha Pan in northern Namibia are influenced not only by local weather conditions but also by global climate patterns. Dr Natasha Wallum, from the School of Geography and the Environment, explains how atmospheric dust plays a critical role in Earth system processes.
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Why is it so difficult to build new reservoirs?
Dr Kevin Grecksch, departmental lecturer and course director for MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management in the School of Geography and the Environment, comments on the idea of 'locking' water in storage areas in a BBC News Online article that explores why it is difficult to build new reservoirs.
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Zonal pricing is dead – here’s how the UK should change its electricity system instead
In an article for The Conversation, Cassandra Etter-Wenzel, DPhil candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment, Dr Anupama Sen and Prof. Sam Fankhauser of the Smith School, explore the options for the UK's electricity system now that UK government has decided against setting different prices for electricity based on the locations of consumers.
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From the Streets Up: New Project Tackles Urban Inequality in India’s Climate Action
India is facing the twin challenges of climate change and ongoing growth of its urban population. The pressures both challenges create play out first and foremost on city streets. They are places where millions of often very poor people try to earn a living while being exposed to extreme heat, droughts, and floods. Thanks to funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research programme, the collaborative research project Just Transitions on Indian Streets (JusTIS) will examine how Indian cities can tackle climate change in ways that are fair, inclusive, and responsive to the realities of street vendors, gig economy workers and autorickshaw drivers.
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