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Exploring the ecosystem limits to poverty alleviation in African forest-agriculture landscapes ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Citizen science for landslide risk reduction and disaster resilience building in mountain regions This project aims to leverage recent technological and conceptual breakthroughs in environmental data collection, processing and communication to enhance resilience building in data-scarce and poor mountain communities in South Asia. Using the Karnali basin in Western Nepal as a pilot study, the project will combine monitoring of precipitation, river flow, soil moisture, and geomorphology with a participatory citizen science approach to generate landslide risk maps at unprecedented resolution, and design and implement a framework for bottom-up and polycentric community disaster resilience, based upon knowledge co-generation and sharing. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
GOTHAM - Globally Observed Teleconnections in Hierarchies of Atmospheric Models Climate extremes have a huge impact on water resources for agriculture, industry and fresh water supply in developing countries. Climate Services aim to provide more reliable climate information over months/decades relevant for local and regional users. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Learning from observational data to improve protected area management Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Uncertainty reduction in Models For Understanding deveLopment Applications (UMFULA) Research to better understand climate variability and change across sub-Saharan Africa. Focused on advancing scientific knowledge and better integration into decision making for improved climate risk management and protection of lives and livelihoods. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Risks and Responses to Urban Futures: integrating peri-urban/urban synergies into urban development planning for enhanced ecosystem service benefits. This project aims to quantify the time lags involved in forest recovery after logging operations leave deadwood to decompose, with a view to quantifying the time scales over which the deadwood dynamics in logged forests approach those of primary forest. The insight gained from this research will have benefits for local forestry departments and private sector businesses by informing on sustainable practices and carbon stock release mitigation. The research will be undertaken in Malaysia where it will also have benefits for the local population, with some outputs being translatable to other regions. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
NEC06809 NFLICS: Nowcasting FLood Impacts of Convective storms in the Sahel Research grant – developing an early warning system for flood risk, at city and subnational scales, from intense rainfall associated with mesoscale convective systems in the Sahel. Benefitting at risk communities in the Sahel through improved forecasting, strengthened risk management systems and enhance communication networks. SDGs: 11, 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Managing ecosystem services for food security and the nutritional health of the rural poor at the forest-agricultural interface ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Ecosystem Services as a Missing Dimension of Poverty ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
The Political Economy of Water Security, Ecosystem Services and Livelihoods in the Western Himalayas ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Testing the 'megadrought' hypothesis: the timing, cause and impacts of climate change in equatorial Africa (DeepCHALLA-UK) DeepCHALLA-UK aims to deliver a step-change in the understanding of the African megadroughts by evaluating the number, 
duration, cause and intensity of these millennial-scale arid intervals over the last 250 ka, from the exceptional sedimentary
record of Lake Challa, a deep crater lake on the flank of Kilimanjaro. Beneficiaries of this research will primarily be in Kenya and Tanzania, via increased capacity and knowledge filtered down to the community level. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
ESPA Insights into Resilience and Wellbeing: Research Frontiers for Sustainable Development ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Towards resilience to pluvial flood events Research grant – enhancing understanding of the hydrometeorological factors that lead to pluvial/flash flooding and the impact this hazard has on local communities and their supporting infrastructure in Kampala, Uganda. Benefitting individuals and communities through enhanced preparedness for pluvial flooding events. SDGs: 11, 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
KE Fellowship. Towards better integration of science in resilience building Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the economic and social costs of natural hazards. This interdisciplinary programme aims to reduce risk in these earthquakeprone and volcanic regions by increasing resilience to high impact events. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
PAlaeo-Constraints on Monsoon Evolution and Dynamics Climate extremes have a huge impact on water resources for agriculture, industry and fresh water supply in developing countries. Climate Services aim to provide more reliable climate information over months/decades relevant for local and regional users. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Can capturing global ecosystem service values reduce poverty? ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
A hidden crisis: unravelling current failures for future success in rural groundwater supply This project aims to build a robust, multi-country evidence base on the causes of the unacceptably high rates of groundwater system and service failure and use this knowledge to deliver a step-change in future functionality. The project takes an interdisciplinary approach using the latest thinking and techniques in both natural and social science and applies them to three African countries (Uganda, Ethiopia & Malawi) that have struggled for decades with water service sustainability. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Building understanding of climate variability into planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa - (BRAVE2) The programme focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners in SSA to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Explaining niche separation in tropical forests: feedbacks between root-fungal symbioses and soil phosphorus partitioning Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
HyCRISTAL: Integrating Hydro-Climate Science into Policy Decisions for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure and Livelihoods in East Africa Research to better understand climate variability and change across subSaharan Africa. Focused on advancing scientific knowledge and better integration into decision making for improved climate risk management and protection of lives and livelihoods. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Risks and Solutions: Marine Plastics in Southeast Asia - RaSP-SEA Working regionally with Malaysian and Thai partners, this project will build capacity, generate knowledge, and test innovative solutions under three interlinked, interdisciplinary themes: 1. Modification and transformation of plastics in the environment, 2. Hazard, risk, and impacts, 3. Intervention, mitigation, and adaptation.
This project will deliver new knowledge of the flow and life cycle of plastic waste within the Southeast Asian region, the levels of plastic pollution currently pervading this region, and the risk that macro- and microplastic pollution poses to SE Asian coastal ecosystems and wildlife, ecosystem functions, and the livelihoods they support. Trialling of interventions, mitigation, and adaptation approaches will be of benefit to public policy, conservation, materials engineering, business, fisheries, environmental education, and economics. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Climate service for resilience to overheating risk in Colombo, Sri Lanka: a multi-scale mapping approach (COSMA) Research grant – providing climate science services to assist the decisionmaking on the preparedness and resilience to heat exposure risk during heatwaves in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo for the current and future climates. Benefitting local communities through better preparedness planning, risk reduction advice and understanding of heatwaveresilient design. SDGs: 3, 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Discovery Science ODA Programme. FLOODMAL Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
WISER: Which Ecosystem Service Models Best Capture the Needs of the Rural Poor? ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Issues and Myths in Protected Area Conservation: Tradeoffs and Synergies (IMPACTS) ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Building understanding of climate variability into planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa - (BRAVE2) The programme focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners in SSA to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
BOULDER: Accounting for BOUlders in Landslide-flood Disaster Evaluation and Resilience Research grant – enhancing understanding of boulder production on hillslopes and transport in rivers in order to account for boulders in landslide and flood disaster evaluation and resilience in the Upper Bhote Koshi (UBK) basin, Nepal. Benefiting stakeholders in the UBK catchment, particularly communities reliant on hydropowergenerated electricity. SDGs: 7, 11. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Governance for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation (GESPA) ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in populous deltas ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Improving Preparedness to Agro-Climatic Extremes in Malawi (IPACE-Malawi) Research grant – investigating the impacts of extreme weather events on agricultural systems, and improving the forecasting and delivery of agriculturespecific weather information, in Malawi. Benefitting Malawian communities through enhanced early warning systems which increase resilience to and preparedness for extreme climate events. SDGs: 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Earthquakes without frontiers: a partnership for increasing resilience to seismic hazard in the continents Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to the economic and social costs of natural hazards. This interdisciplinary programme aims to reduce risk in these earthquakeprone and volcanic regions by increasing resilience to high impact events. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Can tropical Montane forest Acclimate to high temperature? Montane-Acclim Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Web-Based Natural Dam-Burst Flood Hazard Assessment and ForeCasting SysTem (WeACT) Research grant – developing novel webbased hazard assessment and forecasting technologies to improve community risk awareness and preparedness for natural damburst floods (NDBFs) in the Sun Koshi basin, Nepal. Benefitting at risk communities in the case study site area, and local/regional stakeholders in disaster risk mitigation. SDGs: 8, 9, 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
High Impact Weather Events in Eurasia: Selected, Simulated and Storified Climate extremes have a huge impact on water resources for agriculture, industry and fresh water supply in developing countries. Climate Services aim to provide more reliable climate information over months/decades relevant for local and regional users. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Microbial transformation of plastics in SE Asian seas: a hazard and a solution This project will characterise the microorganisms living on plastics in the sea and explore how they affect the breakdown of plastic. Through developing a better knowledge of plastispheres (the term used to describe the combination of plastic and the microorganisms that live on it) the project aims to understand how microorganisms transform plastic surfaces and determine the ultimate fate of plastic detritus in the marine environment.  This project will measure the impact these plastispheres have on marine environments and wildlife in order to accurately characterise the hazard posed by plastispheres, and not just plastics, to South East Asia’s ecosystems.  This project will search for solutions to removing plastics and grow an informed and connected community of regional stakeholders in order to reduce environmental damage by current and future plastic pollution. This project coordinates the expertise of researchers from Singapore, UK, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam to carry out laboratory and field experiments on microbial colonisation and transformation of plastic. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
The structure and dynamics of groundwater systems in northwestern India under past, present and future climates Changes in the hydrological cycle will affect a range of environmental hazards and their effects on people’s lives. Projects will increase understanding of changes in the water cycle and improve predictions for mitigation and resilience to these hazards. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
UKCEH National Capability ODA: Options for Net Zero Plus and Climate Change Adaptation Project centred on advancing the capabilities of selected LMIC countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, South Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria) to deliver climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches. This includes 1) delivering capabilities that support the development and delivery of plans to reduce emissions and increase carbon sinks of natural and managed ecosystems while considering possible cascading effects and trade-offs that impact on the wellbeing and livelihoods of the population in beneficiary countries. 2) Supporting beneficiary countries in their National Adaptation Planning in response to climate change through enhancing the predictability of changing freshwater resources and improving hydro-meteorological forecasting to inform early-warning systems for cascading hazards. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Connect4 water resilience: connecting water resources, communities, drought and flood hazards, and governance across 4 countries in the Limpopo basin Research grant – investigating the physical and societal factors affecting vulnerability and resilience to drought and flood in the 4 countries of the Limpopo River Basin. Benefitting local people through enhance awareness water issues and hazards and improved preparedness to flood and drought impacts through improved governance and policies. SDGs: 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Future Resilience for African CiTies And Lands (FRACTAL) FRACTAL aims to alter how African cities include climate change in development planning, in a context with no direct historical precedent. Outputs will include increasing understanding of regional climate information, informed by co-exploration with decision makers around water, flooding and energy. The benefitting areas will be urban rather than rural, in the countries of Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
NEC06809 NFLICS: Nowcasting FLood Impacts of Convective storms in the Sahel Research grant – developing an early warning system for flood risk, at city and sub-national scales, from intense rainfall associated with mesoscale convective systems in the Sahel. Benefitting at risk communities in the Sahel through improved forecasting, strengthened risk management systems and enhance communication networks. SDGs: 11, 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Predicting Impacts of Cyclones in South-East Africa (PICSEA) Research grant – developing the most comprehensive assessment of forecast systems to date for tropical cyclones and their effects on southeast Africa, in order for forecasters, humanitarian agencies and the forecastbased finance community to be able to respond appropriately to tropical cyclone hazard. Benefitting local communities through improved resilience. SDGs: 13. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Experimenting with practical transition groundwater management strategies for the urban poor in Sub Saharan Africa The programme focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners in SSA to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Earth's weathering reactor: carbon source or sink over short and long time-scales? Research projects from NERCs Discovery Science funding which have been identified as delivering outcomes which will benefit the lives and livelihoods of people in developing nations Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa: Ecosystems, livestock/wildlife, health and wellbeing ESPA aims to deliver high quality cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Groundwater Risk Management for Growth and Development The programme focuses on improving the evidence base around groundwater availability and management in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to enable developing countries and partners in SSA to use groundwater in a sustainable way in order to benefit the poor. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.
Research cruise around St Helena/Tristan da Cunha Research cruise around St Helena/Tristan da Cunha. This is a part BAS NC, part Cefas commissioned cruise. Research and development activity contributing to the UK’s strategy to address key development challenges.