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This theme encompasses many different facets of research across STEMM, the social sciences and humanities, including the sustainability of natural and modified ecosystems in the face of societal development and climate change, climate change science, adaptation and mitigation, mining and its corresponding global environmental challenges, sustainability and the circular economy.

Available PhD projects

  1. Can migration be harnessed to contribute to sustainability transitions?
  2. Assessment of the restoration of South-East Asian peatlands through sedimentological and palaeoecological analysis
  3. Examining trajectories of decline of megafauna in our coastal seas
  4. Hazard and disaster planning in tourism: an integrative approach
  5. Environmentally sustainable closure of tailings storage facilities informed by life cycle analysis
  1. Novel low carbon concrete for fire resistance applications
  2. Exploring the nanoscale surface interactions of microplastics in natural waters
  3. Long-term impacts and multiple benefits of green infrastructure in cities
  4. Impact of elevated CO2 on physiology, health and disease resistance in global aquaculture

6. Novel low carbon concrete for fire resistance applications

Read project description and apply via University of Exeter

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