Welcome to Climate, Environment and Public Health
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Molecular Plant Sciences
Our research looks at responses to environmental stresses, developmental biology, genetic and epigenetic control of gene expression and cell biology.
Durham Energy Institute (DEI)
Decarbonising energy is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today, reducing greenhouse emissions and addressing climate change.
Climate, Environment and Resources
Our research includes environmental and resource-related issues, including decarbonisation, air pollution, and de-risking extractive industries.
Ecology, Evolution and Environment
Relationships between organisms and their changing environment, from global to sub-cellular, considering behavioural and evolutionary plasticity.
Centre for Culture and Ecology
We are interested in thinking ecology as constitutively implicated in struggles around class, gender, race, sexuality and pressing ecological issues.
Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
Our research encompasses a range of academic disciplines, including the physical and social sciences and the arts and humanities.
Medieval and Early Modern Ecologies and the Arts
Marginal natural elements and negotiating the coded systems of meaning used to represent the natural world in the medieval and early modern imagination.
Colonialism, Neo-colonialism and Ecology
Global discourses on the distributed responsibility of the current climate crisis often ignore the colonial histories of exploitation that continue.
Earth Surface Processes and Hazards
Our research addresses the processes that form and modify the Earth’s surface, and that transport material and energy to and across the surface.
Weathered Lives
Objective measurements and subjective experience of weather; wind chill, bushfires, intergenerational weather encounters and research methods.