Questions from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs:
Behavioural and social science
What makes communities resilient to natural hazards and other crises? What can we learn from the coronavirus pandemic about the loss of resilience and protecting vulnerable communities to inform future response to crises? What are the important social dimensions for achieving environmental and infrastructure resilience?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Behavioural and social science
How can we make the most of participatory/ co-design approaches with different groups in society, including digital engagement, to generate new ideas, learn from existing practice, and build consensus for the future of policy?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Behavioural and social science
How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced how people engage with and value environmental systems (including nature, wildlife, and farming and food supply)? What opportunities does this present to lock-in positive behaviour change and secure environmental objectives in the longer term?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Behavioural and social science
How can we encourage or incentivise behavioural change among businesses, communities, and individuals to achieve positive outcomes for the environment? What models of societal change might be used to underpin these behaviour change initiatives?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health”
How can we model existing data from human, animal, plant, and environmental health indicators to better understand the interconnection and potential impacts of climate change?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health”
How can a One Health approach promote a cultural change to curb the expansion of illegal wildlife trafficking and implement solutions that will ultimately benefit humans and the planet, galvanising the role of protected species conservation and biodiversity on disease prevention and mitigation?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health”
How can we improve the management of our ecosystems, including biodiversity loss, chemical pollution, environmental degradation, and the introduction of alien species, to reduce the risk of infectious zoonotic, animal, and plant diseases?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health”
How will the prevalence and incidence of animal and plant pathogens in domesticated organisms and wildlife adjust to climate change? How can we better integrate cross-sector surveillance and response to ensure the risk of large-scale epidemics or pandemics in humans (such as COVID-19), animals, and plants are minimised?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health”
How can we design and embed robust, cross-cutting indicators of, and improve our understanding of, human, animal, plant, and environmental health in systems under pressure from climate change?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Interactions between animal, human, and environmental health: “One Health”
What is the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment and within food systems, and to what extent is this facilitating the development and transmission of AMR between animal and human populations?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Natural resources and trade
How do we minimize the risk of plant and animal disease import to the UK as traded products change, and as the UK goes through a period of significant change in its international trading arrangements post-EU and post COVID-19?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Natural resources and trade
What is the UK’s long-term requirement for natural resources from global markets? Which resources are exposed to production/supply risks owing to geopolitical, macro-economic, pandemic, or environment factors and what are the likely impacts of change to the UK economy?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Nature-based solutions
How can local planning for nature-based solutions be best reconciled with regional and national strategies? What are the most effective ways to combine place-based participatory approaches with evidence and analysis of the likely effectiveness of nature-based solutions?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Nature-based solutions
How can we effectively use nature on our land to help provide the services we need (carbon uptake, flood defence, resilience through biodiversity, clean air and water, recreation for public health and so on) and balance the provision of these services?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Nature-based solutions
How do we maximise the various benefits of nature-based solutions, and address any trade-offs and associated risks, through our plans for nature recovery, afforestation, peatland restoration, natural flood management, and improved water quality?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
Nature-based solutions
How can we most effectively implement nature-based solutions, such as tree planting and peatland restoration, to address climate change, support progress to net zero carbon emission, reduce biodiversity loss and prevent poverty?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021