The research areas identified in this document rely on a wide range of research tools and approaches, spanning disciplines across the sciences and social sciences. This section is not an exhaustive list of the tools and approaches of interest to Defra. It identifies some areas of particular relevance and change, which will be important in addressing the challenges faced by Defra and represented throughout this document.
Societies demand resource from the environment and shape that environment. The social science of human-nature interactions is of fundamental importance to Defra.
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The Network will focus on the need and ability to evaluate and increase the resilience to natural-human hazards of increasingly vulnerable populations in the hyper-expanding margins of cities, specifically in Vietnam and...
Funded by: GCRF
Lead research organisation: VIGMR
The project focuses on evaluating and increasing the resilience to natural-human hazards of vulnerable populations, which is directly relevant to the question.
The network for Partnerships for Resilience through Innovation and Integrated Management of Emergencies and Disasters (PRIMED) primarily aims to strengthen community preparedness and resilience as a strategic approach fo...
Funded by: GCRF
Lead research organisation: University of Ghana
The project aims to strengthen community preparedness and resilience, which is directly relevant to the question.
Resilience is central to the current development agenda and underpins approaches to disaster risk reduction. Fundamentally, resilience is about the ability of communities to predict, resist and absorb the impact of envir...
Funded by: GCRF
Lead research organisation: University of York
The project focuses on building resilience in and for poorer communities, which partially addresses the question about protecting vulnerable communities.