From the macro to the micro: analysis from the IES

Peter Sanderson
Blog
April 2014

I work for a local authority and have spent several years encouraging reluctant residents to recycle. More recently I have been working with the Environment Protection team within the council to help local industries avoid releasing dust and chemical pollutants into the air. However, at heart I...

Paulina Poplawski-Stephens
Article
February 2014

environmental SCIENTIST | The Energy Trilemma | February 2013


In 1997, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Kyoto Protocol, the international act binding nations around the world to reducing carbon...

Emma Fenton
Discussion paper
January 2014

The debate around fracking has intensified in recent months, with campaigners and local communities entrenched in seemingly intractable positions against the Government and fracking industry. In an attempt to summarise the debate around the environmental effects of fracking the IES has produced...

Jim Keyte
Article
December 2013

environmental SCIENTIST | Reading the landscape: heritage and the environment | December 2013


When one mentions archaeology to a non-archaeologist, the discussion will invariably move rapidly to Time Team, and “that chap with the long hair”. That is archaeology for most ...

Sharon Holloway; Vicky Midgley
Article
November 2013

environmental SCIENTIST | UK regulation: endless paperwork or essential protection | November 2013


In July 2012, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) initiated the Smarter Environmental Regulation Review (SERR) to take a cross-...

Nick Flynn
Article
September 2013

environmental SCIENTIST | The EU - Red Tape or Green Governance? | August 2013


We need more Europe, not less” Angela Merkel proclaimed in 2012 to the annoyance of eurosceptics. She was speaking in the context of the global financial crisis, but a parallel...

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