School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management
Climate Change and Adaptation
Climate change is real and humans play a significant role in its progression. Even if we cap greenhouse gas emissions now our world faces a century of rising temperatures, changing climates, amplified weather extremes and rising sea levels. This will in turn affect biodiversity and biological distributions of plants and
animals and realign borders. How we adapt to this changing climate is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today, making research in this area crucial to understanding our future.
processes of climate and climate change. They are producing innovative ideas and solutions on what we can do to mitigate the effects of climate change and manage those that are now inevitable.
The School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management’s staff and students are investigating the basic 1