The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has joined with fellow members of the research community, government and the public to respond to the inevitable environmental change here in the UK and internationally.

This research partnership was announced at the launch of the UK's £1 billion Living With Environmental Change programme in London on 18 June 2008.

Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) is an unprecedented partnership of 17 research and policy-making organisations working together to find ways to cope with the environmental changes that are already starting to affect people's wellbeing and livelihoods. The programme will address environmental change in the short-term and at regional level as well as the longer term global changes. A key objective is to provide the evidence-base that policy-makers and people need to make timely decisions that will enable us to prepare for the predicted changes and to manage the economic impacts.

Read more on the NERC website.

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