23 September 2010

'Living with environmental change' - public lecture, September 30th

The challenges facing our environment and the way we live - and how research is changing to deal with them - will be explored in a public lecture at the University of Dundee on Thursday September 30th.

The lecture will be given by Professor Andrew Watkinson, Director of Living With Environmental Change, a major new initiative involving more than 20 UK institutions which are engaged in environmental research.

The specific aim of LWEC is to deliver research to policymakers, business and across society so that we can meet these challenges as effectively as possible. In his lecture Professor Watkinson will examine how the LWEC partnership is evolving and how its ways of working are affecting the research landscape.

Before taking up his appointment as Director of Living with Environmental Change in October 2008, Professor Watkinson was Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.

His own research has focussed particularly on biodiversity and the impacts of climate change on the coastal zone.

The lecture takes place at 6 pm on Thursday September 30th in the Dalhousie Building, on Old Hawkhill.

It is being hosted by the Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience (CECHR), a joint research venture between the University of Dundee and SCRI which is examining environmental change and how society can react to it.

Anyone who wishes to attend is asked to register their interest in advance if possible by contacting cechr@dundee.ac.uk or 01382 384185, although there will be places for anyone who turns up on the night.

For media enquiries contact:
Roddy Isles
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University of Dundee
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