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QUEST

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls

Professor in Coastal Engineering
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
Connect with Robert

Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Achieving food and environmental security: new approaches to close the gap
2014, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 369(1639), 20120272-[6pp]
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0272
Type: article
Food security in a perfect storm: using the ecosystem services framework to increase understanding
G.M. Poppy, S. Chiotha, F. Eigenbrod, C. A. Harvey, M. Honzak, Malcolm D. Hudson, A. Jarvis, N.J. Madise, K. Schreckenberg, C.M. Shackleton, F. Villa & Terence P. Dawson, 2014, Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 369(1639), 1-13
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0288
Type: article
Global-scale climate impact functions: the relationship between climate forcing and impact
N.W Arnell, S. Brown, S.N. Gosling, J. Hinkel, C. Huntingford, B. Lloyd-Hughes, J.A. Lowe, T. Osborn, R.J. Nicholls & P. Zelazowski, 2014, Climatic Change, 1-13
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-1034-7
Type: article
Spatial variations of sea-level rise and impacts: an application of DIVA
S. Brown, R.J. Nicholls, J.A. Lowe & J. Hinkel, 2013, Climatic Change
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0925-y
Type: article
A global assessment of the effects of climate policy on the impacts of climate change
N.W. Arnell, J.A. Lowe, S. Brown, S.N. Gosling, P. Gottschalk, J. Hinkel, B. Lloyd-Hughes, R.J. Nicholls, T.J. Osborn, T.M. Osborne, G.A. Rose, P. Smith & R.F. Warren, 2013, Nature Climate Change, 3, 512-519
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1793
Type: article
Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a ‘beyond 4°C world’ in the twenty-first century
R.J. Nicholls, N Marinova, J.A. Lowe, S. Brown, D Gusmão, J Hinkel & R.S.J. Tol, 2011, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 369(1934), 161-181
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0291
Type: article