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Lancaster Environment Centre

We are a community of high-achieving students, world-class environmental researchers, government scientists and enterprises working together to address today’s biggest environmental challenges.

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Study with the Graduate School for the Environment, which harnesses the power of three of the world’s foremost research organisations to give students the best possible chance of enjoying productive, impactful and influential careers.

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Our research challenges provide a focus for our fundamental and applied research, ensuring our work helps provide the underlying knowledge needed to find effective solutions.

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Our research groups include a wide range of researchers from the natural and social scientists. They work in multi-disciplinary teams within, across and beyond these groups to help find solutions to the big global environmental challenges.

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Dr Celine Germond-Duret and Professor Nigel Watson

Lancaster University academics appointed to newly created college of environmental experts

Two Lancaster University academics have been appointed to the Government’s Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), as members of the newly created College of Experts.
The mountainous and icy coastline of the Antarctic Peninsula

Lancaster scientists help track rapid retreat of Antarctic glacier

Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can “switch very rapidly” and lose large quantities of ice as a result of warmer seas.  
Carolyn Hayes, Knowledge Exchange Partnerships Development Officer, collects the award for Lancaster University

Centre for Global Eco-Innovation wins 'Net Zero' knowledge exchange award

Lancaster University’s Centre for Global Eco-Innovation has won the Net Zero Collaboration of the Year category at the prestigious national PraxisAuril KE Awards 2023.
Attendees at the land use, land use change and forestry workshop in Ghana.

Land use workshop in Africa forges new partnerships for Lancaster Environment Centre

A two-day workshop in Ghana organised by Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) and the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) focussed on land use, land use change and forestry in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Prof Gordon Walker

Geography professor retires from Lancaster Environment Centre

Geography professor Gordon Walker – who has worked at Lancaster University for almost 20 years – has taken retirement and shifted to emeritus professor status.

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