Research

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Lancaster Environment Centre: ranked 5th in the UK for Research Power (REF2021)

As one of the world’s largest and highest rated multi-disciplinary centres of environmental research, we bring together world-class researchers from a wide range of disciplines to develop the understanding needed to address the global environmental challenges that confront us all.

Working with businesses, governments and non-governmental organisations internationally, we provide the underlying knowledge to help find effective solutions. We are helped in this by colleagues from other disciplines within Lancaster University, and a network of partners from the UK, and around the world, including our partners in China and Brazil.

Research Groups

Our research groups include a wide range of researchers from the natural and social sciences. They work in multi-disciplinary teams within, across and beyond these groups to help find solutions to the big global environmental challenges.

Institute of Planetary Repair

The Institute of Planetary Repair is an interdisciplinary initiative in the Lancaster Environment Centre that complements our five disciplinary Research Groupings.

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