School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

De-risking water, resource, and energy asset development in Malawi

GCRF Funding Cycle2019-20 Principal InvestigatorDr Tim Raub SchoolsEarth & Environmental Sciences ODA countriesMalawi Sustainable Development Goals Malawi’s eco-tourism industry is central to its development strategy and must be joined up with its sustainable management of environmental resources, particularly its few remaining stands of ancient forests and its highest-in-the-world lake biodiversity, notably of cichlid fish species. … Read more

Assessing Rwanda’s strategic metal endowment

GCRF Funding Cycle2019-20 Principal InvestigatorDr Nicolas Gardiner SchoolsEarth & Environmental Sciences ODA countriesRwanda Sustainable Development Goals Rwanda, a beacon of progress in Africa, with a remarkable turnaround since the genocides of the 1990s, hosts significant deposits of critical “3T” metals: tin, tantalum, and tungsten. To capitalize on its resource base, in 2019 the Rwandan Government … Read more

Integrated energy solutions in Malawi

Mitigating climate change and creating business innovation at intersections of the Energy, Fisheries, Forestry, and Entrepreneurship industries GCRF Funding Cycle2018-19 Principal InvestigatorDr Tim Raub SchoolsEarth & Environmental Sciences, Geography & Sustainable Development ODA countriesMalawi Sustainable Development GoalsGoal 9, Goal 13 In recent years, the World Bank has funded a number of data collection and feasibility … Read more

Community Crafts and Cultures (CCC)

GCRF Funding Cycle2020-21 Principal InvestigatorsKaren Brown, Jamie Allan Brown SchoolsArt History, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geography & Sustainable Development, Modern Languages ODA countriesCosta Rica Sustainable Development GoalsGoal 8, Goal 11, Goal 16 A collaborative community project coordinated by the Museums, Galleries and Collections Institute (MGCI) at the University of St Andrews, this project seeks to … Read more

Community Culture Tanzania for Sustainable Development

GCRF Funding Cycle2020-21 Principal InvestigatorRichard Bates SchoolsEarth and Environmental Sciences, Computer Science ODA countriesTanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya Sustainable Development GoalsGoal 1, Goal 3, Goal 4,  Goal 5, Goal 6, Goal 8, Goal 11, Goal 14, Goal 15, Goal 16 The UNESCO World Heritage site of the Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara is located to … Read more

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