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The University of Southampton are the project lead for the DECCMA Consortium. \u00a0The Faculty of Environment and Engineering at the University of Southampton represents the largest and most diverse engineering and environmental science grouping in the UK. \u00a0Our expertise looks deep below the Earth’s crust, reaches into space and encompasses everything in-between. Our research groups are working on a variety of projects that are addressing some of the major issues facing the world, with investment from research councils, government and industry partners. \u00a0We work on multidisciplinary projects across the University, as well as with other academic and industrial partners. \u00a0Engineering and the Environment has built strong relationships with industry. \u00a0We share our knowledge, expertise and facilities with our partners to help them achieve their goals. We offer a wide range of solutions, from consultancy to long-term, leading-edge research projects.\n<\/span><\/p>\n
Website:<\/strong> www.soton.ac.uk<\/a> | Team members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>www.bc3research.org<\/a> | Team members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>www.fao.org<\/a> | Team members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>www.kulima.com<\/a> | Team members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>www.metoffice.gov.uk<\/a> | Team members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>www.pml.ac.uk<\/a> | Team members<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>www.dundee.ac.uk<\/a> | Team members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong>www.exeter.ac.uk<\/a> | Team members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" University of Southampton The University of Southampton are the project lead for the DECCMA Consortium. \u00a0The Faculty of Environment and Engineering at the University of Southampton represents the largest and most diverse engineering and environmental science grouping in the UK. \u00a0Our expertise looks deep below the Earth’s crust, reaches into space and encompasses everything in-between. 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His research concerns long-term coastal engineering and management, especially the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise. Dr. Craig Hutton cwh@geodata.soton.ac.uk Dr. Craig Hutton is the Deputy PI\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Team"","block_context":{"text":"Team","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/category\/team\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Robert Nicholls new","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/05\/Robert-Nicholls-new-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/contact\/","url_meta":{"origin":88,"position":1},"title":"Contact","author":"Carolin Bothe-Tews","date":"20th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Jon Lawn DECCMA Project Co-ordinator Faculty of Engineering & the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Building 25, Room 3063 University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)2380 592651 Gertrude Domfeh Owusu University of Ghana P.O. 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It will integrate the results\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1473,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/about\/deccma-consortium\/northern\/former-members\/","url_meta":{"origin":88,"position":3},"title":"Former members","author":"jlawncariaanet","date":"23rd August 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Ellie Tighe - University of Southampton Ellie Tighe has spent the last six months researching migration and the \u2018left-behind\u2019 in the Mahanadi river delta, India. This qualitative study has involved semi-structured interviews with household members left-behind, looking at migration-livelihood interactions and household capacity to cope with shocks and stresses. Ellie\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"E Tighe","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2017\/08\/E-Tighe-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/about\/deccma-consortium\/","url_meta":{"origin":88,"position":4},"title":"DECCMA partners & people","author":"Carolin Bothe-Tews","date":"20th January 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Northern team University of Southampton Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Kulima - Integrated Development Solutions MET Office Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) University of Dundee University of Exeter \u00a0","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":948,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/about\/work-package-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":88,"position":5},"title":"Work Package 2","author":"Carolin Bothe-Tews","date":"24th July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Vulnerability, hazard and climate change hotspot mapping Lead: University of Southampton, Chris Hill & Javapdur University, Tuhin Ghosh WP2 will examine the vulnerability, environmental stressors and hazards of a range of climate change and biophysically driven scenarios across the four study deltas.The WP will geographically define and where possible quantify\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/1426"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)<\/h1>\n
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BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change is an excellence research centre created in 2008 as jointly promoted by the Basque Government and the University of the Basque Country, with the goal of contributing to knowledge on the causes and impacts of climate change, as well as drive advancements in high level research on these issues. Under the leadership of Prof. Anil Markandya, BC3 seeks to contribute to solve this great challenge from the Basque Country, summing up efforts with other centres in the world. \u00a0BC3 has four main research lines: Low Carbon, Climate and Natural Environment, Health and Climate, and Climate Policy.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)<\/h1>\n
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The FAO was established in 1945 with a specific mandate to ensure food security for all people of the world. \u00a0Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. \u00a0As a knowledge organisation, FAO creates and shares critical information about food, agriculture and natural resources in the form of global public goods.\u00a0 FAO also has extensive experience in the development of indicators and tools to assess climate impacts on agriculture, based on a large variety of data sources.<\/p>\nKulima Integrated Development Solutions<\/h1>\n
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Kulima Integrated Development Solutions is a South African climate change adaptation consultancy. We act as a boundary organisation, using gender-sensitive consultation and\/or participatory processes to support effective communication channels between scientists, policy-makers, donors, practitioners and community members. Our ultimate aim is to ensure that adaptation is effectively supported and\/or enabled. The methods through which we fulfil our role include research and analysis, scoping studies, screening activities for climate risk, institutional and policy analysis, developing strategy documents, guidebooks and toolkits, presentations, training courses and facilitation of conferences and workshops.<\/p>\nMET Office<\/h1>\n
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The Met Office is a science-led organisation, focussing on weather forecasting and long-term climate prediction. They provide advice to underpin mitigation and adaptation policy formation and decision making, based on ground-breaking scientific achievements in the fields of weather and climate science. \u00a0The teams involved in the DECCMA project within the Met Office focus on developing models and techniques to produce regional climate information for climate change impacts and adaptation assessments, often with a focus on, and collaboration in, developing country regions.<\/p>\nPlymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)<\/h1>\n
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is an International Centre of Excellence in Marine Science & Technology and a Collaborative Centre of the UK Natural Environment Research Council. \u00a0PML carries out innovative fundamental, strategic and applied research in the marine environment from estuaries to the open ocean. \u00a0The mission of PML emphasises on integrated scientific understanding of the interactions between the marine environment and society in order to sustain coastal and upper ocean ecosystems and their services under conditions of global change. \u00a0Since 2002, PML has been operating as a company limited by guarantee with UK charity status. \u00a0In 2014 PML was the winner of the UK Charity award in the category of Environment and Conservation. \u00a0PML also operates a commercial branch, Plymouth Marine Applications\u00a9 to commercialise aspects of its research and provide additional income to the charity.<\/p>\nUniversity of Dundee<\/h1>\n
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The Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management, which is within the University of Dundee, was formed in 2006 to bring together Centres which already had a longstanding international reputation for graduate teaching, research and specialist expertise on natural resources issues. \u00a0Within the School, the Centres continue to grow and forge co-operative relationships in research and teaching across the areas of law, policy and management with a focus on the energy, water and mineral resources sectors.<\/p>\nUniversity of Exeter<\/h1>\n
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Geography at Exeter University is part of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences. \u00a0The Environment and Sustainability Research Group within Geography undertakes interdisciplinary social and natural science research on the causes and consequences of environmental change and solutions for sustainability. The University is an academic partner of the UK Met Office and has made major contributions to the IPCC\u2019s Fifth Assessment Report across climate science, impacts, adaptation and mitigation.<\/p>\n