ECI Annual Review 2006/2007 - Environmental Change Institute ...

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After 16 years Oxford’s ECI is increasingly recognised as an
innovative and successful environmental enterprise.
Uniquely in the UK it is playing a lead role in the
Government’s three major climate and energy research
initiatives: UK Climate Impacts Programme, the Tyndall
Centre for Climate Change Research, and the UK Energy
Research Centre. ECI’s cross-disciplinary innovation has been
acknowledged in it becoming a founding partner of Oxford’s
£60m James Martin 1st Century School.
The ECI’s research and teaching focus is grouped around three
interlocking themes: Climate, Ecosystems, and Energy. The
research brings together the natural and social sciences, with an
orientation to applied and public policy by considering: ‘How
and why is the global and regional environment changing?
and ‘How can we respond, through public policy, private
enterprise, and social initiatives?’
ECI
Ecosystems
Research Theme
Climate
Research Theme
Energy
Research Theme
Master of Science
Environmental
Change &
Management
Ecosystem Dynamics
Biodiversity & Climate Change
Human Ecology
Conservation Practice
James Martin 21st Century School
Tyndall Centre
UK Climate Impacts Programme
Lower Carbon Futures
UK Energy Research Centre
Carbon Vision
Newly appointed James
Martin Fellows begin making
their mark on the world’s
21st century problems
Examining questions like: “How do uncertainties in
predictions of global climate change models affect
climate policy?”; and “Can foreign aid help drive
positive change at the level of national economies,
moving countries toward lower-carbon/higher value
pathways of development?”
Grabbing runaway media attention
for newly released ‘Predict and
Decide’ the Lower Carbon Futures
report strives for emissions
reductions throughout society.
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Ecosy
MSc Environm
Energy group facilitate
the shift towards a low
carbon society
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