Natural disasters
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- What will be the ecological, economic, and social impacts of sea level rise? How effective are our current responses?
- How is climate change affecting the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases, and how can we become more resilient to these outbreaks?
- Horizon 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 approaches
- What are the changes that will affect the quality and availability of agricultural land and how will these affect UK’s food and farming systems?
- How can we optimise the management of flood and coastal erosion infrastructure?
- Further our understanding of how climate change is affecting the health of the ocean as a result of acidification and warming seas
- Climate projections (for example UK Climate Projections 18) indicate increased climate variability and extreme events (storms, heat waves, drought) in the future. How will these changes impact natural and human systems? How can we protect against damage caused by such increased variability?
- How do we better prepare for the scale and frequency of future incidents? Including assessing our collective capacity and integrating incident management
- How can public messaging on transport systems be used to best effect to safeguard transport users following a security incident or natural hazard disruption?
- What are the most appropriate methodologies and indicators to measure the benefits of lowering the risk of catastrophic events, including fire, flood, structural failure?
- What makes communities resilient to natural hazards and other crises? What can we learn from the coronavirus pandemic about the loss of resilience and protecting vulnerable communities to inform future response to crises? What are the important social dimensions for achieving environmental and infrastructure resilience?
- How can we better understand future flood and coastal erosion risk? Including assessing the impact of climate change, and wider social, political, or economic factors
- How do we increase societal resilience to flood and coastal erosion risk?
- How will changing freshwater budgets impact river flow, water availability, the risk of flooding, and natural systems?
- How do we future proof farming and food chains to global shocks? What is the potential for wild relatives, landraces, and orphan varieties to increase diversity and enhance resilience?