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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Undergraduate Degrees

Biology

Ecology and Conservation

Environmental and Earth Sciences

Geography

Zoology

Postgraduate Study

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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Masters by Research

PhD

Professional Training

Latest News

Steller’s Jay (Western US), Sunbear (Borneo), burned forest (Oregon)

Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics

Animals that evolved in environments subject to large-scale habitat-altering events like fires and storms are better equipped to handle forest fragmentation caused by human development than species in low-disturbance environments, new research shows.

Protecting our coasts

A Lancaster expert in coastal processes has joined the North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, working to reduce the risks from rising sea levels and increasingly stormy weather.

First ‘proof’ that the clock is ticking on British farm soils

Research into a UK arable farm has indicated that the soil could be eroded to the point of bedrock exposure within two centuries.

Tini Birmpili, Executive Secretary of the UN Environment Progamme Ozone Secretariat, gives Professor Nigel Paul his award.

Turning science into effective policy

Professor Nigel Paul gets a UN award in recognition of his “extraordinary contribution to the Montreal Protocol”, that is healing the hole in the Ozone layer and reducing global warming.

L-R: Leonid Ponomarenko; Mohamed Kheireddine; Steve Long; Nick Graham; Mariana Rufino

Lancaster researchers listed among world’s most influential

From research into coral bleaching to ‘wonder material’ discoveries, work by five Lancaster University academics has seen them named Highly Cited Researchers 2019, according to the list from the Web of Science Group, released today.

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Research

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.

Atmosphere, Climate & Pollution

Critical Geographies

Earth Science

Ecology & Conservation

Environmental & Biogeochemistry

Geospatial Data Science

Plant & Crop Science

Political Ecology

Soil, Plant & Land Systems

Water Science

Research Challenges

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.

Agri-Food

Eco-Innovation

Sustainable Catchments

Tropical Futures

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LEC Seminars Oct-Dec 2019

Wednesday 2 October 2019, 1:00pm to Wednesday 18 December 2019, 2:00pm

6th Dec

"Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Conservation in Guyana and Suriname": Tropical Futures / Political Ecology / Critical Geographies seminar

Friday 6 December 2019, 1:30pm to 3:00pm

12th Dec

FST Research Event Series: Academics on Twitter

Thursday 12 December 2019, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

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