Thematic Clusters

Environmental risks affect every level of human, national, international and ecological security. How do we categorise these risks? That's up for debate and there are amazing new thinkers challenging our assumptions all the time.

Our thematic clusters try to balance the need to bring experts together to address common challenges, with the need to adapt to ongoing innovation in the way we think about our environmental exposures and vulnerabilities.

Please stick with us as we update this page with more information about the broad range of experts we're bringing together across these themes and the kinds of projects and insights that are being developed.

Politics & International Relations

Analysing the geopolitical implications of climate insecurity (e.g. global governance, interstate competition, state fragility, and diplomacy).

Pauline Heinrichs

King's College London

Maeve Ryan

King's College London

Peace, Conflict & Crisis Management

Exploring the implications of climate shifts for conflict, peacebuilding and disasters, and the organisations charged with responding to these.

Duraid Jalili

King's College London

Energy & Resource Transitions

Examining shifting trends in availability and control of resources, from food and water, to energy and critical minerals.

Joe Maiolo

King's College London

Richard Byrne

Harper Adams University

Technological Innovation & Access

Evaluating the interactions between climate insecurity and technological development (e.g. R&D, engineering, and solutioneering).

Mark Workman

Imperial College London

Health & Wellbeing

Understanding the complex interplay between climate shifts and health security, across people, animals and environment (i.e. one health).

Alex Tasker

University of Bristol

Law, Ethics & Justice

Examining the judicial and ethical implications of climate security risks, from personal rights to loss and damage.

Rita Floyd

University of Birmingham

Narratives, Ideologies & Social Change

Investigating sectoral and societal responses to climate insecurity (from philosophies to behaviours), and how to influence these.

Duraid Jalili

King's College London

Theme Leads

Trade & Economic Security

Assessing the intersections between climate and economics, from political economy and financial architectures, to trade and debt.

Theme Leads

Physical Access and Movement

Examining the intersectional impacts between climate insecurity and shifts in migration patterns and access to different domains.