Environmental Change Institute


The Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford in England was founded in 1991 "to organize and promote interdisciplinary research on the nature, causes and impact of environmental change and to contribute to the development of management strategies for coping with future environmental change".
With an annual research income of £4.7million in 2013/14, a portfolio of 50 active projects, 350 partners and 60 researchers working across 40 countries, the ECI is an active and influential player in environmental change science.
The ECI's research is interdisciplinary, both in outlook and approach. ECI has a well-established track record in relation to climate, energy and ecosystems and a growing expertise in relation to food and water.
ECI is a leading player in number of large research activities, including the which develops new tools to link climate science with stakeholders in business and government in order to create innovative adaptations to the impacts of climate change; the world's largest citizen science climate ensemble with 350,000 individuals running climate simulations in order to better understand regional climate patterns; leaders of major EU consortium programmes including Impressions, studying the impacts and risks of extreme climate change; and coordinators of GEM, a global ecological monitoring programme across remote forest locations in South America, Africa and Asia.
The ECI's full portfolio of projects has led to academic papers and citations totaling over 45,000 since 2000.
The ECI is also home to the MSc in Environmental Change and Management].
The Institute is led by Professor Jim Hall.

Research

The ECI's research is organised around five main themes in climate, ecosystems, energy, food and water.
There are expert teams in: