Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability Research Group (CECS)
Staff, students, their interests and ongoing projects
 
Below is a list of staff and postgraduate students who make up the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability
research group in the School of GeoSciences, their interests and some
ongoing projects.
Ecosystem dynamics; in particular ecological restoration of post-industrial sites to improve biodiversity and the mechanisms and processes of succession.
Global environmental change; environmental sustainability; impacts on stratospheric ozone depletion and ultraviolet radiation on ecosystems; air pollution effects; climate change impacts; interdisciplinary research in environmental change and sustainability
Climate change impacts on ecosystem services; foresight analysis and environmental change futures; global change vulnerability of human-environment system; assessing stock and change in ecosystem resources.
Political ecology; nature-society; economic and social development in Scotland, South Asia and Latin America; feminist geography; subjectivity and environment; common property resources; rural studies.
Land use responses to environmental change; spatial analysis and modelling of land use change systems; climate change impact and adaptation assessment;foresight analysis and environmental change futures.
Rural land use, environment and sustainability; biophysical models for policy making; plant ecophysiology including below-ground processes, water use and phenology; coastal zone management.