Research Strands

CIRRE aims to be a Research Centre that contributes to human well-being and the sustainability of the global environment, whilst contributing to the Welsh economy. The Centre’s research plans have been confirmed by the BBSRC and NERC as falling within a number of their priority research funding areas. The three main streams are:

1. The impacts and drivers of climate change in the rural environment, which include:

• developing a research programme in climate change and the linkage of carbon and nitrogen cycling
• interfacing with the Welsh Climate Change Consortium and Research Council initiatives such as Living with Environmental Change (LWEC)
• integrating with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Bangor

2. The management of rural landscapes to meet societal and economic demands, which includes research into:

• the impact of alternative spatial arrangements of rural landscapes elements on ecosystem services
• animal and human health and the rural environment
• the management of wildlife resources and the maintenance of biodiversity
• public engagement with the rural landscape
• socio-economic, hazard and risk modelling in the rural environment
• landscape-scale and ecological modeling

3. Developing science-based policy for the rural environment, which includes:

• Animal disease
• Biogeochemistry
• Biodiversity conservation
• Ecosystem health
• Waste management and pollution
• Energy and biofuels
• Epidemiology
• Social policy
• Flood risk
• Waste Management & Pollution