Research project

Opportunities and trade-offs between the SDGs for food, welfare and the environment in deltas.

Research groups:

Energy and Climate Change Group

Environmental Change and Sustainability

GeoData
Lead researcher:

Professor Robert Nicholls
Other researchers:

Professor Chris Hill,

Professor Craig Hutton
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Research interests

long-term coastal engineering and management
the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise
the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting in the coming century

Email: r.j.nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Chris Hill

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Email: cth@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Professor Craig Hutton

Director Sustainability&Resilience Inst.

Email: cwh@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Energy and Climate Change Group

The research group seeks engineering solutions for reliable, affordable and sustainable energy stemming from renewable resources.

Environmental Change and Sustainability

We carry out geospatial analysis and experimentation to understand environmental change and potential solutions.

GeoData

We manage, analyse and process environmental data. Our consultancy services and interdisciplinary research projects range from managing river catchments and coastal zones to the wider fields of environment, social and economic development.