Enabling Sustainable Resource Futures
Humanity is facing a climate and ecological crisis, demanding novel solutions and societal adaptations to environmental change. To reach net-zero goals, we must source new minerals, developing sustainable means of extraction that don’t cost the Earth, and provide solutions for efficient resource use.
Our research
Humanity is facing a climate and ecological crisis, demanding novel solutions and societal adaptations to environmental change. In the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, our research examines Earth systems, ecosystems and social systems, and the dynamic relationships between them, to address the challenge of how to live within the Earth's limits. Addressing challenges of finite resources, our research advances sustainable means of extraction and remediation, to meet the demands of net-zero for a greater variety and increasing volumes of minerals. By examining social-ecological systems and understanding how people interact with the environment, we can understand and work out how to respond to the challenges of improving sustainability and reducing inequality in food production systems such as fisheries and farming, and we work on ecosystem level approaches to improve flows and functions within biodiversity and water resources.
Research groups
Our work within this theme is heavily linked to the work conducted by several department and university wide research groups.
