From the macro to the micro: analysis from the IES

Trevor Bishop & Brendan Bromwich
Webinars
February 2023

This webinar reviews recent practical experience of systems approaches to regional and subregional planning for water. In addition to this, the speakers compare approaches taken for Water Resources South East’s draft regional plan and for the Greater London Authority’s Subregional Integrated...

Luke Douglas-Home
Webinars
February 2023

In this webinar, Luke Douglas-Home outlined the known problems and some suggested solutions of these two enormous environmental issues – foreshore plastic and historic landfills.


Last year was the first year of the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science: these two issues seriously threaten the...

Mark Everard
Blog
February 2023

Professor Robert Costanza is familiar to many, perhaps most, scholars and practitioners of sustainable development, particularly those with an interest in the services and values of ecosystems. His contributions are eagerly awaited for insight and guidance. Whilst we are not generally short of...

Simon Spooner
Webinars
February 2023

Humanity has grown prosperous and numerous by burning and consuming the products of biological systems of the past and present. In doing so we have allowed the degradation of the environment which we share with other living things. We have now learned how to get much of what we need without...

Joseph Lewis
Blog
February 2023
Earth from space

Today (February 16th) is Kyoto Protocol Day, which commemorates the Protocol coming into force. In turn, it is an opportunity to reflect on the history of climate science during a time when the lessons with which we are now all-too familiar were still entering the mainstream of public...

Joseph Lewis & Ethny Childs
Blog
February 2023
Aesthetic pile of stones with sunset and overlaid text "megatrends: future of es23 wrap-up"

Following two months of discussions, articles, briefings, and webinars, the first theme of our Future of ES23 horizon scanning & foresight project is now completed.


Find out all about the megatrends shaping the future of the environmental sciences, as well as how we can harness them...

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