ECI Research: Influencing change through partnership and education

The ECI’s aim of influencing change for the better is achieved through a multi-layered and enduring network of partnerships.

Most of our research projects are conducted in collaboration with stakeholders in government, industry and communities. UKCIP has been hosted within the ECI for the last 14 years, and has particular expertise in connecting climate and adaptation science with practical decision makers. We lead and facilitate networks of knowledge exchange locally, nationally and globally.

Related projects

UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium: Long term dynamics of interdependent infrastructure systems
The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium will inform the analysis, planning and design of national infrastructure, through the development and demonstration of new decision support tools, and working with partners in government and industry.
Catchment change network: A professional development platform for decision-making for adaptation and uncertain environmental change
2009 - 2012
The Catchment Change Network (CCN) brings together a broad range of scientists and practitioners to consider the assessment of future changes across catchment systems. It is intended to enable the exchange of knowledge between the NERC research base and science user community to understand and manage uncertainty and risk related to future changes in catchments.
CLIMSAVE: CLimate change Integrated assessment Methodology for cross-Sectoral Adaptation and Vulnerability in Europe
2010-2013
A project to develop and apply an integrated methodology for stakeholder-led, climate change impact and vulnerability assessment
How would football save the planet?
2010 - 2011
Oxford Utd is exploring the potential for sport to enthuse new audiences in the environmental challenge.
Climate-X-Change
Sep 2006 - 2010
A campaign to engage with Oxfordshires 620,000 citizens taking climate change into the community.
World Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change or Global Warming
2009 onwards
This figure, updated monthly, tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents.
UKERC Meeting Place
2004 onwards
The UKERC networking hub for international specialists to tackle the challenge of sustainable energy.
SMEasure: energy monitoring tool
2009 onwards
A new easy-to-use building energy energy management system for small and medium businesses to measure, benchmark and target the energy use of your buildings simply by entering regular gas and electricity meter readings
imeasure: energy monitoring tool
2009 onwards
an easy-to-use online tool for accurately measuring and monitoring home energy use and carbon emissions over time.
Climate Solidarity
2009 - 2011
ECI is working in collaboration to undertake monitoring and evaluation of Defra's Climate Solidarity project under the Greener Living Fund.
EVALOC – evaluating effectiveness of DECC-funded low carbon communities
2011-2014
A project to assess, explain and communicate the changes in energy use due to community activities within six selected low-carbon communities funded under the DECC's Low Carbon Communities Challenge (LCCC.
Long term dynamics of interdependent infrastructure systems
2011 - 2015
Climateprediction.net
ongoing
A distributed computing project to produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models. By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic.
Climateeducation.net
Climateeducation.net is a global programme which aims to encourage the sharing of high quality information about climate science, modelling and the interpretation of climate change modelling experiments. It will do this by offering two short online courses and supporting an online community of knowledge sharing in regional climate prediction.
UKCIP
1997 onwards
UKCIP provides the public, private and voluntary sectors as well as the scientific community with a range of tools and datasets which support climate impact assessment and adaptation planning.
Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate (ARCC)
2009-2013
The ARCC Coordination Network (ACN) exists to enhance the cooperative development and dissemination of research between and beyond a portfolio of 14 EPSRC-funded research projects exploring the impacts and adaptation in a changing climate within the built environment, including transport and water resource systems. UKCIP is a partner organisation in this network
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS)
2010 - 2020
This 10 year research initiative launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) has an Oxford component led by NERC Food Security Leader, John Ingram.
Local Climate Impacts Profile
Indigenous-State Relations in Alaska and Beyond: Sustainable Livelihoods, Biocultural Diversity and Health since the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
2008-2011
An alaysis of how the creation of Alaska Native business corporations transformed institutional arrangements between Alaska Natives, state governments, ecosystems, and regional-global economies, and outcomes in indigenous groups' biocultural health.
Dynamics of Circumpolar Land Use and Ethnicity (CLUE): Social Impacts of Policy and Climate Change
2008-2012
This project examines how the impacts of rapid climatic change among the peoples of the circumpolar rim affect land use and ethnicity
Human Adaptation to Biodiversity Change
2010-2011
An initiation of conceptual frameworks, methods and integrated models for understanding human adaptation to change in biodiversity and related ecosystem services that can eventually be used to predict outcomes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being in highly biodiversity dependent societies, and provide evidence for the utility of these outputs to a new network of researchers and policy makers.
How do global cities mitigate climate change?
2007-2009
An examination of cities which are demonstrating leadership on the issue of climate change and their role in responding to post-2012 international dynamics.
Governing Climate Change beyond the International Regime: City Actions in China
2008 - 2009
Identifying the key factors that determine the current carbon actions taken by non-nation state actors in China, and examining the implications of these activities for developing a post-2012 climate regime that can effectively engage China.
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests (OCTF)
Launched 2008
The OCTF has been launched to bring together the vast amount of intellectual capital and practical issues relating to tropical forests within the locality. The OCTF aims to foster greater links and intensify synergies between all those interested in the past, present and future of tropical forests.
Ecosystem Governance Theme 1: Multi-level Governance and Agency
2009 - 2012
An examination of the evolution and interaction of state and non-state governance within the forest sector, from local to global levels.
Operationalizing REDD+: Actors, Interests and Ideas
2009 - 2012
The aim of this project is to gain a better understanding of the wide range of actors, interests and ideas that are shaping REDD+.
Embedding Biodiversity Adaptation Principles (EMBEDS)
2010 - 2011
This project will review of the success of embedding climate change adaptation principles in activities supporting Defra's internal Biodiversity Programme; and in the England Biodiversity Strategy