PhD in Devolution of Agri-Environmental Policy for Enhancing Nature and Achieving Net Zero University of Exeter in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter on quantifying uncertainty and spatial dependence in tropical forest forecasts to support climate change mitigation , conservation planning, and carbon finance. The project sits within the UNRISK CDT and is supervised by Dr Ben Balmford , Prof Daniel Williamson , and Prof Ben Groom . It focuses on improving statistical and machine-learning methods for forecasting deforestation and regrowth using satellite data, with an emphasis on uncertainty quantific...

PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter on supporting policymakers to incentivise effective and equitable land use change for Net Zero with AI . The project sits within the UNRISK CDT and focuses on combining artificial intelligence , machine learning , statistics , and mathematical modelling to improve decision support for climate and land-use policy. The research addresses how UK land can be used for tree planting, agroforestry, re-wilding, peatland restoration, bioenergy crops, and other ...

PhD opportunity at University College London in the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction: UNBURNT: UNcertainty from wildfire hazard to BUilt-environment Response, adaptatioN and insurabiliTy . This project sits within the UNRISK CDT and focuses on wildfire hazard, urban climate science, built-environment response, adaptation, insurability, and uncertainty quantification. The research will combine probabilistic wildfire hazard data, urban microclimate modelling, building-by-building fire spr...

PhD opportunity at the University of East Anglia in soil carbon, soil health, microbiology, and landscape transition . This funded CASE PhD project, supervised by Prof Brian Reid in the School of Environmental Sciences , builds on the UKRI OpenLAND project to investigate how nature-based solutions and land-use change affect soil carbon stocks , carbon stability , and soil microbiome responses . The research combines field and laboratory work, including dry combustion, thermogravimetric analysis,...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in Uncertainty in AI-Augmented Climate Risk Analytics for Global Food Supply Chains . This project sits at the intersection of climate science , data science , environmental geography , human geography , information systems , mathematical modelling , and public policy . The research addresses how climate shocks such as droughts, floods, and heatwaves propagate through global food trade networks and how human decision-making under uncertainty can amplify...