Past Climate Trends and Impacts

Dr. Kristen Beck and Dr. Matthew Hannaford explore past climatic change using reconstructions from natural archives and documentary records. Dr. Beck investigates late Quaternary climate patterns and their impacts on terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems. Dr. Hannaford uses documentary sources to investigate the nature of past climate variability and its impacts on society, as well as social responses and adaptation. Our research also uses this historical knowledge to inform present-day challenges.

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The New Civil Politics of Climate Change

Find out more about our research which aims to identify, and account for, some key elements of a ‘new civil politics’ of climate change emerging at local and national scales across the UK.

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Rivers of Civilisation

Find out more about our involvement in investigating the impact of Holocene and historical climate change on floodwater farming in dryland rivers in the Desert Nile, Sudan and the Aral Sea basin, Kazakhstan.

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