Category: case studies

COST Action ENTER

Foreign Policy New Realities

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Foreign Policy New Realities

COST Action ENTER

2018-present. Complete web design/development and support.

Project Overview

EU foreign policy experiences unprecedented turbulences that put key achievements of the European integration project at risk. Externally, the EU’s global environment is characterized by the reconfiguration of power, growing divisions, and the contestation of the established liberal order.

Simultaneously, the EU’s neighborhood is increasingly conflict-prone and unstable, triggering migration flows and the proliferation of illiberal values. 

Domestically, the EU faces severe internal conflicts, marked by austerity, Brexit, growing nationalism, populism, and new protectionism.

COST Action ENTER aims to improve our understanding of central properties of EU foreign policy in light of these new realities, focusing on perceptions, communication, contestation.

In today’s world, the success of EU foreign policy depends on the EU’s ability to instantaneously respond to stimuli and pressures originating from both the international and the intra-EU levels.

The Action ENTER aims to improve our understanding of central properties of EU foreign policy in light of these new realities, focusing on perceptions, communication, contestation.

In today’s world, the success of EU foreign policy depends on the EU’s ability to instantaneously respond to stimuli and pressures originating from both the international and the intra-EU levels.

Linking internal and external policy dynamics, the Action has a strong potential for breakthrough scientific developments.

Inogov

Inogov

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Innovations in Climate Governance (INOGOV)

Inogov

2014-present. Complete web design/development and support.

INOGOV is a network of research excellence dedicated to understanding the sources, patterns, and effects of policy and governance innovations for climate change.

Set against scientific predictions, current international responses to climate change are widely perceived to be inadequate.

There is a growing perception, that many mitigations and adaptation measures have been taken outside the international regime.

In this sense, governance has become considerably more polycentric, with pockets of dynamism especially evident at the national and subnational levels, but also in the so-called transnational sphere.

However, there is far less agreement on if and how these innovations can be scaled up, if and indeed how they should be coordinated, and where the necessary leadership to achieve this might originate.

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Johanna Forster
Dr Johanna Forster Network Manager. Innovations in Climate Governance (INOGOV)
Adapt Lock-in Project

Adapt Lock-in

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Adapt Lock-in

Adapt Lock-in Project

2020-present. Complete web design/development and support.

Project overview

Preparing for and coping with the accelerating impacts of climate change requires adaptation in a wide range of policy areas. Yet, despite increasing calls for action, policy change to allow this is often slow.

A range of counteracting forces and barriers can make it difficult to embed adaptation objectives into important policies and move them away from ‘business-as-usual. 

However, deeper dynamics are also at play, where self-reinforcing mechanisms, feedbacks, and path dependencies interact across different Spatio-temporal scales and coalesce to establish policy lock-ins.

The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to uncover these lock-in dynamics and examine the extent to which they account for varying levels of climate change adaptation in Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K. (England).

Project duration

June 2019 – May 2022

Professor Mike Hulme

Professor Mike Hulme

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Professor Mike Hulme's blog

Professor Mike Hulme

2007-present. Complete blog development and continuous support.

Mike is a Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, where he is the Director of Studies for Geography.

His work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural, and scientific analyses.

He seeks to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and political discourse and to this end, he is currently finishing a book manuscript on ‘The Idea of Climate Change‘ for the Routledge Key Ideas in Geography book series, due for publication in June 2021.

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Mike Hulme Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
UKESM

UKESM

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UKESM

UKESM

2016-present. Complete web design/development and support.

Project overview

The UKESM project is charged with developing, and applying UK Earth system models (UKESM) and providing user support for these models to the wider NERC/academic community.

UKESM project aims are:


  • To apply UKESM1 to investigate a range of Earth system phenomena and their sensitivity to future anthropogenic forcing.

  • To scientifically evaluate and document the performance of UKESM1.

  • To analyze and document UKESM1 future projections.

  • To provide science-based guidance on future Earth system change.

  • To provide the tools and user support for UK Earth system modeling research.

  • To initiate the development of a future UKESM2 model.

 

Project duration

2017 – 2021

Tyndall Centre

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

Tyndall Centre

2014-present. Complete web design/development of two previous website versions and continuous support.

We provide evidence to inform society’s transition to a sustainable low-carbon and climate-resilient future.

The Tyndall Centre is a partnership of universities bringing together researchers from the social and natural sciences and engineering to develop sustainable responses to climate change. We work with leaders from the public and private sectors to promote informed decisions on mitigating and adapting to climate change.

“Above all, we undertake robust and independent research to identify the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change and inform open and transparent decisions that best serve society”.

About the Tyndall Centre: The Tyndall Centre was founded in 2000 to conduct cutting edge, interdisciplinary research, and provide a conduit between scientists and policymakers. With nearly 200 members ranging from PhD researchers to Professors, the Tyndall Centre represents a substantial body of the UK’s climate change expertise from across the scientific, engineering, social science and economic communities.

The Tyndall Centre has since 2000 significantly advanced the fundamental analysis of emission reduction from all major energy sectors, the understanding of climate impacts, risks, and adaptation options, the public perceptions of climate change, and the governance of climate negotiations and policymaking. From 2000 to 2010 the Tyndall Centre was core-funded to a total of £19m by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, and the Economic and Social Research Council. In the years since core funding came to end, Tyndall partners receive several million per year in project funding, including from public and private consultations on how to respond to climate change.