Matters pertaining to emergent societal-environmental issues
This March 8th, the ‘Constructing a Digital Environment’ programme is proud to support the International Women’s Day, and to celebrate this we wanted to capture the achievements and inspirational stories of the women in the CDE Expert Network. With thanks to those who have agreed to share with us, here are their inspiring stories. #IWD2021 […]
On Thursday 25th February we were delighted to have Charles Helleputte of UCLouvain and a Partner in Steptoe present a fascinating webinar entitled ‘Is EU cybersecurity the missing piece to sustainable digital environment?’. Charles is a partner heading the EU cybersecurity, data, and privacy practice at Steptoe. He focuses on existing EU and national cybersecurity, […]
We had a fantastic finish to the first of our Webinar series ‘Data for Decision Making’ when Professor Karl Claxton presented his most informative talk on Lessons from applying decision science in the public health sector. This presentation followed the earlier webinars from Professor Sam L Savage (The Flaw of Averages and How to Cure […]
On Thursday 17th December, we were delighted to have Professor Norman Fenton, Queen Mary London University, present his webinar entitled, ‘Why Big Data and AI machine learning will never work for critical problems of risk assessment – causal reasoning and knowledge to the rescue’. Norman is a well-respected and widely published author with over 300 […]
We all need a little health check every now and again and our scientific equipment is no different. This year we are embarking on a new project CreamT (Coastal REsistance: Alerts and Monitoring Technologies) based on our fabulous WireWall wave overtopping measurement sensors. Under CreamT, WireWall will return near-real-time hazard data plus system health checks […]
The work of the Constructing a Digital Environment programme draws on the involvement of a wide range of research scientists, students, policy makers and regulators as well as the public. Alongside this, a significant number of written works, reports and communications are also arising from this work. It is considered useful therefore to produce a […]
The exact origin of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has not yet been identified, however there are indications that it may be linked to pangolin. Pangolins are protected at the highest level under international environmental law via a ban on international trade in all pangolin species since 2017, however they are still considered to be the world’s most trafficked mammal. This has put illegal or unsustainable wildlife […]
New low-cost wind observations from aircraft are now being assimilated in the Met Office’s high-resolution UK model. In situ upper air observations of the atmosphere have been of interest to meteorologists since the first thermometers were flown on kites in the mid-1700s. Kites were still used for routine observations into the early 1900s. The advent […]
The first report from an expert collaboration identifying ten key emerging environmental issues for Europe has been developed with academic input from Cranfield University. The FORENV project is a foresight system which takes a short, medium and long-term look at emerging topics that EU policy-makers need to consider. An alliance of experts led by Collingwood Environmental Planning […]