Environmental Change Institute (ECI)

Home to Oxford's most popular science MSc course

Leader of CLIMSAVE: pan-european climate impacts, vulnerability & adaptation project

Leader of the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium

Co-ordinator of global long-term ecological monitoring programme

Host to the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security programme

Host to UKCIP since 1997

Founding partner in the UK Energy Research Centre

Creator of the Oxfordshire ClimateXchange

Coordinators of Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate Programme

Core partner in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

ECI in the news

Dr Tom Thornton appears on radio in Alaska to launch his new book: A landmark atlas of indigenous place names in Southeast Alaska.

Representing Oxford University at Planet under Pressure: ECI organise Oxford stand and present papers at multiple sessions including panel discussion on global megatrends with John Beddington and Bob Watson.

Ensuring forest benefits are about more than carbon: ECI host successful conference on the role of justice and equity in REDD+

Blood, sweat and fears: the research scientists in Borneo's rainforests. The Guardian joins Terhi Riutta and scientists on fieldwork in Borneo.

Climate change increased likelihood of Russian 2010 heatwave. Read the coverage of this new study by ECI researchers.

Inbusiness magazine reports on Oxford Biochar – a new company set up by ECI researchers and offering a zero carbon solution to improving soil fertility.

UKERC highlights alarming omissions and inconsistencies in Green Deal consultation: ECI researchers respond to the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s consultation on the Green Deal.

Buildings don't use energy - people do! Energy-efficient buildings will reduce carbon emissions faster if we can become energy conscious citizens explains Katy Janda in NERC’s Planet Earth and Britain in 2012.

Review of Activities in 2012

Download our latest review of activities: published April 2012. Non interactive lowres format.

Research outputs

A landmark atlas of indigenous place names in Southeast Alaska has been published by the Sealaska Heritage Institute marking 20 years of research by Dr Thomas Thornton.

Hall, J.W., Lempert, R.J., Keller, K., Hackbarth, A., Mijere, c. and McInerney, D.J. (2012) Robust Climate Policies Under Uncertainty: A Comparison of Robust Decision Making and Info-Gap Methods.

Riutta, T., et al. (2012) Experimental evidence for the interacting effects of forest edge, moisture and soil macrofauna on leaf litter decomposition Soil Biology and Biochemistry 49 (124–131).

New report proposing a road-map for reducing carbon emissions in the UK building sector Achieving zero: delivering future-friendly buildings.

First ITRC output, the Fast Track Analysis report is now available to download. Download press release; executive summary; full report.

Dr Nick Eyre co-authors report for the Green Alliance: Demanding less: why we need a new politics of energy. See coverage in The Guardian.

Hall, J.W., How safe is safe enough? Editorial, Journal of Flood Risk Management, 4(4) (2011): 271-272.

Download podcasts and powerpoint presentation slides from Energy and people: futures, complexity and challenges conference. Oxford, 20-21 September 2011.

The second national iConnect research seminar was hosted at the University of Cambridge, organised by researcher Christian Brand and colleagues September 2011.