Our research

 Collaborative Projects

• Net Zero Innovation Project - Dr. Jane Hindley, Dr Nicholas Beuret, Dr Marie Juanchich, Kirils Makarov, Professor Ian Colbeck, Professor Alex Dumbrell and Dr Leanne Hepburn. Dr. Jane Hindley (project lead) and fother members of CES have successfully obtained a CBC-UoE Net Zero Innovation project [working together with the Colchester Borough Council Centre (CBC)]. The programme is a joint Local Government Association-UCL initiative. The environmental sustainability project focuses on CBC’s key challenge of reaching “beyond the choir” to achieve the borough’s net zero goals. World Bank-PEFA Project - Professor Kelum Jayasinghe, Professor Thankom Arun, Dr. Chaminda Wijethilake, Dr. Bedanand Upadhaya and Dr. Pawan AdhikariIntegrating Climate Change Budgeting into public investment policies: A Cross Country Assessment in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka and Nepal). 

Inter-disciplinary Research

•  Inter-disciplinary research cluster on “the environment and human rights – University of Essex The Human Rights Centre (HRC) and the Centre for Environment and Society (CES) at the University of Essex organised a research networking event on human rights and climate change (initiated by Dr. Judith Bueno De Mesquita - HRC). The participants of this event managed to share a range of cutting edge and very complementary research on the environment and human rights being carried out by our academic staff across a range of departments. Based on the feedback from this event, HRC And CES have established an inter-disciplinary research cluster on “the environment and human rights” for networking, research-exchange, and funding applications in this area of global concern. We have formed an inter-disciplinary steering group for the cluster, which will support the development of its activities, together with the core teams of the HRC and CES. Dr. Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Co-Deputy Director, Human Rights Centre (HRC) and few other members Dr. Stephen Turner, Dr. Birsha Ohdedar, and Dr. Marina Lostal of HRC.
• Collaboration with Sustainability Science Institutes in Europe: CES has joined with the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) and other 15 other Sustainability Science Institutes in Europe that operate as a separate Centre for sustainability, having strong scientific-basis and either being part of a University or having a national mandate. A meeting was held on 1st of December (this list of invitees) to discuss about the topics/themes that would be interested in collaboration and networking.
• The Eastern Arc thematic champion role: Professor Graham Underwood (a leading member of CES) has recently been appointed to the Eastern Arc thematic champion role for sustainability, natural resources and food (see link below), with a remit to help bring together interested parties across the three EARC universities.  There are equivalent colleagues at UEA and Kent.  It’s a "convening- facilitating" role, and he can draw upon EARC resources and a direct feed into the PVC-Rs. In order to facilitate his coordinating work with eastern Arc and Essex, Graham has kindly agreed to join the CES Collaborative Committee.
• Collaborations in Australia and New Zealand: The CES conducts collaborative research with Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR) University of Massey New Zealand and the International Centre for Ocean Governance (ICOG), University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Journals

• Using community education interventions to build resilience and avert crises: how accidental dwelling fires decreased in Essex County, UK.
• Expanding Social Science Through Disaster Studies 

 Research Projects

• GCRF (University of Essex) Project - ARISE: Advancing a Resilience Index for Sustainable Energy and Water in Africa.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) -
• Ecosystem Management: Building Resilience and Adaptability to Coastal Climate Change Effects.

 Journals

• The importance of weather and tides on the resuspension and deposition of microphytobenthos (MPB) on intertidal mudflats.
• Strongholds of Ostrea edulis populations in estuaries in Essex, SE England and their association with traditional oyster aquaculture: evidence to support a MPA designation
• Carbon on the Northwest European Shelf: Contemporary Budget and Future Influences
• Environmental context determines the impact of titanium oxide and silver nanoparticles on the functioning of intertidal microalgal biofilms

Research Projects

• GRCF (University of Essex) Project –  EMBRACE - Ecosystem Management: Building Resilience and Adaptability to Coastal Climate Change Effects.
• The Royal Society - Understanding microalgal biofilm contributions to sediment blue carbon in contrasting salt marsh habitats in the U.S. and Europe.
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) – Professor Underwood Ecosystem Management: Building Resilience and Adaptability to Coastal Climate Change Effects.

Journals

• Procedural Environmental Rights in Bhutan

Journal

• The science behind encouraging people to take positive action to cut pollution

Journals

• Containing climate change: The new governmental strategies of catastrophic environments
• Counting Carbon: Calculative Activism and Slippery Infrastructure