Breadcrumbs
Collaborations
From time to time, the SCI has provided supporting funding for closely related projects that sit outside the SCI’s direct research programme but are important to the larger debate on environmental sustainability.
The SCI seed-funded Capturing the Gains, to attract a much larger funding grant from Department for International Development. This international project brings together experts from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA with the aim of developing knowledge on promoting employment and wellbeing of workers and small producers in the South supplying global retailers and companies.
EPSRC High SEAS is a collaborative project with colleagues from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Manchester and led by SCI theme leader Dr Alice Bows. This 3 year project explores the technical and operational measures available for reducing global shipping emissions by an amount sufficient for the UK to meet its overall climate change objectives.
The SCI supported a series of water management projects coordinated by Dr Johannes Sauer from SCI but with collaboration from Manchester colleagues in engineering. These projects include GENESIS, a large-scale 5 year project funded under the EU FP7 framework and covers more than 20 different partners (universities, research institutes and SMEs) all over Europe, and AquaTRAIN, a Marie Curie Research Training Network established to develop a better understanding of the behaviour and environmental impact, including human health, of geogenic elements, in groundwater and soils in the European Union.
Professor Ada Wossink (Economics) and Professor Geoffrey Beattie (Psychology), who linked part-time to our flagship project on consumer behaviour, with funding from an EU FP7 grant (BIOMOT), are seeking to understand why, despite evidence of large economic values calculated for ecosystem services, neither politicians nor the public, appear to respond swiftly and effectively to prevent further biodiversity degradation. The innovation of the project is that it starts from the perspective of motivation. While the importance of biodiversity conservation has been widely acknowledged, there is a gap both at the individual and policy level between the values expressed and actions taken.