Environment: Process, Change & Policy
The ‘environment’ is a major focus for research in GPEP, which incorporates studies of the physical environment and its processes, of environmental policy and politics, and of governance for sustainable development. Our approach to environmental research is interdisciplinary in its observation, analysis and management of environmental change.
Significant expertise exists in a number of areas:
- field-based environmental observation and analysis;
- resource evaluation and assessment;
- computer-based modelling and GIS;
- environmental governance and policy instruments;
- environmental risk and resilience;
- rural and landscape resource management;
- quality of life and the environment;
- the spatial dimensions of sustainability.
Project examples include TURaS, HAPPINESS, EcoArm2ERA, SiltFlux and Urban Environment project.
Academic staff associated with this research theme include: Craig Bullock, Peter Clinch, Frank Convery, Louise Dunne, Colman Gallagher, Alun Jones, Gerald Mills, Enda Murphy, Mark Scott, Eoin O’Neill, Harutyun Shahumyan, Brendan Williams and Jonathan Turner.