ESRC funding of this centre ended in September 2007
CSERGE was dedicated to original research on the causes, consequences and policy implications of global environmental change. It focused on policy issues, using interdisciplinary research which bridged the natural and social sciences. The Centre devoted itself to several broad areas of research from the standpoint of risks and benefits, and the theory and practice of policy options. These included global warming, global biological diversity and institutional adaptation to global environmental change. Additional themes were the economics of waste management and sustainable development.
Within these broad themes the Centre carried out research on:
- The implications of global, national and local environmental change for regions, nations, trade and industry
- Legal aspects of environmental change in the EU and elsewhere
- Policy studies - approaches to uncertainty, industrial policy and that implications of government policy to the environment
- Benefit assessment, social cost analysis and valuation of resources management options
- Public acceptance studies of technological change and regulatory innovation
- Developing countries' environmental problems
- 'Green' GNP accounts
- Business and the environment
CSERGE received funding for five years (2001-06) from the ESRC for an interdisciplinary programme on Environmental Decision-Making. This enabled CSERGE to establish a more comprehensive understanding about how the decisions which affect environmental outcomes are made, and how these decisions can be informed by everyone whose interests are at stake and shaped by means that are socially just, efficient and effective. The major themes of this programme are multi-level governance and environmental policy integration; social capital, equity and justice; and innovation in decision-support tools and methods.
From 2006 CSERGE secured new research funding totalling around £2 million to continue its work focusing on aspects of sustainable development policy (consumption and production) as well as to initiate new research on ecological services and water resources valuation, catchment and coastal zone management and climate change adaptation. Funding sources include ESRC, RELU (The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme), Leverhulm Foundation and the EU. As we move forward CSERGE's central mission continues to be the pursuit of excellence in our work, a commitment to exploring policy relevant issues and the dissemination of our findings to a wide range of audiences.
Further Information
contact: Prof K Turner, University of East Anglia
tel: + 44 (0)1603 592551
email: r.k.turner@uea.ac.uk
web: http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge
ESRC contact: victoria.crossley@esrc.ac.uk tel: 01793 413061
View research details and outputs for this Centre: 1996-2001 and 2001-06 (phase 2).
View research details and outputs for CSERGE: Programme on Environmental Decision Making (one year extension 2006-07)