Uche is an environmental social scientist working across water, climate, conflict, lake degradation and human security. Uche’s PhD project was titled ‘characterising the relationships between climate, context and conflict in the Lake Chad basin’. This project explored the social challenges (including livelihoods and vulnerability issues) linked to the progressive diminution of Lake Chad in the arid […]
Current Research: PhD: Hazards and vulnerability mapping for adaptation to climate risks in savannah ecosystem: A case study of the Upper East Region, Ghana An assessment of climate change and peri-urban/urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Tamale in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), UN […]
Elisabeth is based at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. Her current research is directed towards global food security and, more specifically, the vulnerability of agricultural systems to droughts as part of the QUEST Project. Background Elisabeth has an MA in Education, an MSc in Geography, and a PhD in […]
Stavros is a Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the University of Leeds. From 2016 to 2018, Stavros was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SRI. His doctoral research examined the role played by the European […]
Director at Kulima Integrated Development Solutions (a South African-based specialist climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction consultancy) and Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Background I am a geographer with longstanding interests in the broad field of global dimensions of environmental change and […]
Dr Chasca Twyman BSC (Newcastle), PhD (Sheffield) is Senior Lecturer at the Dept of Geography at the University of Sheffield and Acting Director of Sheffield Institute for International Development (2015). Dr Twyman has a track record of high profile research into human responses to global environmental change and climatic variability, and environmental management and policy, underpinned by […]
Thomas is an applied microeconomist interested in questions of environmental economics. His current research interests lie in the empirical evaluation of climate change policies and the political economy of air … read more »
Sam has been Co-Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment since March 2011, along with Dr Simon Dietz. Sam joined the Grantham Research Institute in … read more »
Emanuele Campiglio joined the LSE in 2012. He first worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher for the Grantham Research Institute, focusing on the macroeconomics of climate change mitigation and green growth, … read more »
Dimitri is also an Associate Fellow of the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House. Background Dimitri was a Senior Economic Advisor to Cisco from 2008-2013. From 2007 to … read more »
