Water security for safe and resilient societies
Understanding the impact of climate and socioeconomic change on water and the environment.
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Floods, droughts, poor water quality, and disparities in regional access to water are exacerbated by a changing climate. Intertwined with these are a range of socioeconomic and political drivers such as population growth, increased urbanisation, land conversion and industrialization, which complicate solving water-related environmental problems that affect human society and ecosystems.
Our interdisciplinary researchers work across national borders in a variety of environments to meet the challenges set by UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 – ensuring access to clean water, understanding the impact of the climate crisis and anthropogenic pressures, and co-developing effective solutions in partnership.
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PhD research
| PhD project | Student | Lead supervisor |
|---|---|---|
Flood modelling in the Severn Valley | Sam Rowley | Shunqi Pan |
Improving estimates of land evapotranspiration | Kasongo Emmanuel Shutsha | Adrian Chappell |
Effects of land use on the resilience of stream invertebrates to climate change (2023) | Fiona Joyce | Ian Vaughan |
| Assessing variations in water availability to vegetation and its consequences on the riparian forest of the arid southwestern USA in service of ecosystem conservation (2023) | Romy Sabathier | Michael Singer |
| Detection of forest water stress under future climate change in drought prone ecosystems of the Southwestern United States (2022) | Maria Warter | Michael Singer |
Drawing on interdisciplinary knowledge to provide a broad outlook on water problems.