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  (MERI) How do changes in the land surface influence climate?
University of Manchester School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Research Group: Atmospheric Science
  Dr L Garcia-Carreras, Prof G Vaughan, Prof D Schultz
Application Deadline: 6 February 2019
Land-use change represents an important component of anthropogenic climate change, with nearly 40% of the Earth’s ice-free surface already converted to cropland or pasture.
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  Advancing the development and application of spatial decision support tools for the sustainable reuse of brownfield land
Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)
  Dr D Beriro, Dr F Coulon
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
CENTA2 is a consortium of research intensive Universities and research institutes that are working together to provide excellence in doctoral research training.
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  Land Justice and Human Rights: using international and regional human rights mechanisms to protect land and land users.
University of Reading School of Law
  Prof R Freedman
Applications accepted all year round
Traditionally, issues relating to land have fallen outside of the international human rights matrix.
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  Field scale reconstruction of nineteenth century rural land use using first County Series OS maps and parish area books
Kingston University Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
  Prof N S Walford, Dr D Brown
Applications accepted all year round
The project will explore agricultural land use change in mid-nineteenth century England, which was a period of relatively high prosperity and stability before the onset of an era of decline and depression from the early 1870s through to the twentieth century.
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  Modelling temporal changes in biodiversity as a function of land-use change in Indonesia
University of Birmingham NERC Doctoral Training Centre Studentships with CENTA
  Dr T Matthews, Dr J P Sadler, Dr T Pugh, Dr NE Barrand
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
The reported impacts of forest loss and land-use change are almost universally negative, and habitat loss more generally is argued to be the biggest driver of the current extinction crisis (Sala et al., 2000; Haddad et al., 2015).
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  SCENARIO: Coupled carbon, water and heat fluxes over the global land surface
University of Reading Department of Meteorology
  Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP
  Prof K Haines, Dr TL Quaife, Dr D Hemming
Application Deadline: 25 January 2019
Simulating changes to the Earth’s energy, water and carbon cycles is a key goal of climate and earth system models.
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  Understanding signalling networks underpinning key developmental processes during plant evolution
University of Birmingham School of Biosciences
  Research Group: BBSRC MIBTP
  Dr J C Coates
Applications accepted all year round
Plants first appeared on land almost half a billion years ago. All land plants likely evolved from a single aquatic green algal ancestor.
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  Livelihood transition, youth and migration: breaking or reproducing environmental stress in agro-ecological systems
University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Dr F Sugden
Application Deadline: 31 January 2019
Summary. Upland areas have long been important regions of out-migration, given the fragile ecological resource base, population pressure and peripheral status within larger national economies.
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  Valuing field-scale land management interventions
Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)
  Dr T Hess, Dr A Graves
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
CENTA2 is a consortium of research intensive Universities and research institutes that are working together to provide excellence in doctoral research training.
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  Natural Capital and its role in improving rural land planning and management at different spatial scales
Loughborough University School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
  Dr I Pattison, Dr A Glass
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
Loughborough University is a top-ten rated university in England for research intensity (REF2014). In choosing Loughborough for your research, you’ll work alongside academics who are leaders in their field.
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