Research Challenges

Our research challenges provide a focus for our fundamental and applied research, ensuring our work helps provide the underlying knowledge needed to find effective solutions.

  • Agri-Food

    At Lancaster, we aim to facilitate the development of globally relevant and accessible food systems by 2030.

  • Eco-Innovation

    We recognise that sustainable development depends on promoting sustainable patterns of consumption and production as well as protecting and managing the natural resources vital for economic and social development.

  • Science for the Anthropocene

    We don¡¯t know what the world will be like in 2050. We need a different, pragmatic approach that puts the human dimension centre stage and can constantly adapt to changing circumstances, illuminating them as they change.

  • Sustainable Catchments

    Catchments host the infrastructure and industry associated with farms, villages and cities all of which have downstream consequences on water flows and quality.

  • Tropical Futures

    The tropics incorporate an incredible diversity of language and culture, as well as species and ecosystems. They also have some of the world¡¯s poorest people and nations and some of the highest rates of species loss and ecosystem change.