163 resultsResearch ProblemHow can we address barriers to action on adaptation, including behavioural change, and how can government policy best encourage these changes?Areas of interest in adaptation:Published last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHow is climate change affecting the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases, and how can we become more resilient to these outbreaks?Areas of interest in adaptation:Published last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemWhat will be the ecological, economic, and social impacts of sea level rise? How effective are our current responses?Areas of interest in adaptation:Published last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHow can we optimise the food system to support future food production and consumption sustainably whilst reducing environmental impacts?Land usePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemWhat principles should be used to delegate responsibilities to local communities, and how can these areas be empowered to deliver?Behavioural and social sciencePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHow can we encourage the development and dissemination of innovations in the agri-environment sector? What are the right conditions for success?Behavioural and social sciencePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHorizon scanning and futures: Challenges to the UK can be varied and diverse, ranging from manmade deliberate actions by foreign states to naturally occurring events such as flooding, soil erosion and so on. Assessment of current and future challenges will need to be combined with risk management approachesSystems and futuresPublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemConsistent and long-term environmental monitoring: Time-series increase in value for ecology and policy making as they grow in length. Decades of data are required to answer emerging questions around, for example, climate change impacts on biodiversity and the efficacy of management measuresEnvironmental monitoring and data sciencePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemWhat is the status of our natural environment, is it being effectively monitored to note change in the UK and globally? We require robust, reliable data and information that can be used to assess status and trends in the natural environment (genetic and species diversity and trends, invasive species, habitats extent, condition and character, as well as soils and ecosystem services and functions)Measuring changePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHow can different mixes of ‘responses’ – such as regulations, taxes (for example polluter pays), subsidies (for example public money for public goods), and spatial planning – impact the delivery of environmental, economic, and social outcomes at different spatial scales?Ensuring an informed responsePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemWhat approaches will best empower rural communities to develop social, economic, and environmental interventions appropriate to their own local circumstances?Ensuring an informed responsePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHow do we ensure a sustainable economic recovery post COVID-19 with environmental outcomes built in; and what is the potential for rural communities and businesses to contribute?Ensuring an informed responsePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemWhat are the actions that will have the biggest impact on restoring freshwater habitats as far as possible to more naturally functioning ecosystems?WaterPublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemWhat are the changes that will affect the quality and availability of agricultural land and how will these affect UK’s food and farming systems?Sustainable food and farmingPublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHow can innovation boost productivity to transform and future proof the food and farming system in ways that are sustainable and resilient; including the use of agritech, robotics, and automation to drive change and enable food and farming sectors to compete globally?Sustainable food and farmingPublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemUnderstand the full benefits of offshore renewables. To identify and mitigate their environmental impacts by establishing socio-economic evidence to provide information to influence marine policy and development decisionsClean and safe seasPublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemWhat are the interventions needed to reverse climate change or at least hold it steady to begin to mitigate the multiple stresses it causes?Healthy and biologically diverse seasPublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemBetter understanding of ecosystem responses to air quality impacts and of restoration trajectories / rates of recovery of impacted systems in response to policy interventionsAir quality, noise and soundscapePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemIncreasing understanding of the macro-economic benefits of resource efficiency. Developing metrics and measurement techniques to identify key areas for intervention to achieve these benefits and to monitor progressResources and wastePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)Research ProblemHow can innovation in chemical production, use, and disposal across the supply chain minimise chemical-related risks, benefiting the circular economy and reducing pollution?Chemicals, pesticides and hazardous wastePublished last month, by Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (UK)