Innovating for Social and Ecological Resilience
To build resilient communities and ecosystems we need to adopt place-based and person-centred approaches to identify issues, evaluate systems and find targeted solutions.
Our research
To build resilient communities and ecosystems we need to adopt place-based and/or person-centred approaches. In the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, we work in partnership with a broad suite of external partners encompassing communities, and private and third sector organisations, to identify issues and find targeted solutions. Our approaches are simultaneously innovative and grounded, so that we can embrace working on challenging topics relating to the conservation and environmental management areas, healthcare and welfare. We unpack the complex relationship between ecological and social resilience and what this means (both positive and negative) for society across scales (from households to whole regions) and in diverse contexts (from geological exploration to mining communities; through biodiversity to natural capital; and with fisheries and fishing communities). Our work in both teaching and research is strongly aligned with, and informed by, the Sustainable Development Goals.
Research groups
Our work within this theme is heavily linked to the work conducted by several department and university wide research groups.
