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Bryan Hopkins
Tuesday, 9 July 2024

Environmental problems are never just problems in the natural world - they are also always intimately connected with human activities, which have social and economic dimensions.


Systems thinking provides a set of principles and tools to help us make sense of the complex, interacting web...

Recent reports

Recent journals

  • Innovations in AI, machine learning, and other digital technologies are already offering enormous benefits for environmental science, and for the health of our ecosystems. Yet with these...

  • Britain’s natural environment is often viewed as something that exists independently of our financial and governance systems. Whilst there are questions about whether we should reduce nature to a...

  • The water crisis is now a familiar feature in the UK media: from sewage discharges released into our rivers and seas, to plastic pollution damaging our wastewater systems, and droughts and floods...

  • How we respond to matters of environmental justice in the present will shape our society well into the future, as the world grapples with the intensifying effects of climate change and countless...

  • No profession operates in a vacuum and it is imperative that we pay attention to emerging drivers of change.

    This edition of environmental SCIENTIST explores how the European...

IES policy documents

Outlines our approach to ED&I and the priorities for 2023-2026

Outlines how we collect, process and safeguard personal data and comply with data protection law.

Lays down the rules of professional conduct that all professional members need to abide by.

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