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Research story | 2025-01-15

Living with the 'new normal': Local communities’ perspectives on climate change in the Arctic

Climate change is leading to rapid environmental change in the Arctic. The Iñupiat community of Wainwright in Alaska is directly affected by this change. How do they perceive and engage with this ‘new normal’ state that alters their livelihoods? This January, a research team will go on their second field trip to meet with the Wainwright community to find answers together.

Research news | 2022-08-19

To understand complex fisheries, researchers must think outside their boxes

Traditional approaches are insufficient, social-ecological systems thinking can better capture complex interactions between people and ecosystems

Research news | 2022-08-12

What it takes to make different approaches work together

Researchers invite readers “behind the scenes” to share their experiences combining agent-based modelling and controlled behavioural experiments

Research news | 2021-02-19

On “Patchwork Earth”, there is no one-size-fits-all road to sustainability

Three ways science and policy can incorporate more of the diversity and complexity of the world when thinking about the future

Research news | 2021-02-15

Getting to grips with the complexities of human behaviour

Caroline Schill on how there is more to humans than the rational mind, and why researchers studying human behaviour should care about complexity perspectives