Energy efficiency and human behaviour

18 February 2013

Are buildings that consume less energy really more energy efficient as a result? As the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª begins Switch Off Week, researcher Scott Kelly explains how predicting energy efficiency is easier said than done, especially once human behaviour becomes part of the calculation.

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Green and pleasant land: A farm near East Meon in Hampshire.

Farming loved but misunderstood, survey shows

23 August 2012

A YouGov ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª poll has revealed widespread affection for agriculture, even though there is a surprising level of ignorance about the sector and its contribution to the economy.

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Gola Forest credit Jeremy Lindsell

Canopy commerce: forest conservation and poverty alleviation

03 February 2012

Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest – globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves – are being developed by a collaboration of conservation agencies and ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª researchers.

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Vegetables

Food security: your questions answered

31 August 2011

Over the past month, the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how to guarantee enough food, fairly, for the world’s rapidly expanding population. As part of this, we asked whether you had a question that you wanted us to answer, and put them to a panel of academics who specialise in research to do with food security. Here's what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who sent questions in!

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Douglas Crawford-Brown.

Placing water into the picture for climate change

22 August 2011

As World Water Week, an annual week-long global conference on water provision and sustainability, begins in Stockholm, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown explains how the world needs to prepare for the consequences climate change is likely to have on people's access to this vital resource.

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Women

Planning schemes still lack woman’s touch

28 August 2008

Local authorities are failing to consider women's needs in their planning schemes, more than a year after legislation designed to stop the problem was introduced, a ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª University report will reveal today.

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