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FHRC's research is structured in overlapping and crosscutting themes based on axes of environmental-societal dimensions and management themes. We focus on the common human and social dimensions of water, coastal and hazard management. We deliberately choose these resource domains because they highlight the conflicts and contradictions inherent in resource management in modern plural societies. Even here we specialise, on factors of change (including the contextual science base), on human and social dimensions, and on impacts on governance and decision-making. We study hazards because they act as 'magnifying glasses', amplifying fundamental human-environment relations and choices: they are environmental extremes chosen to pinpoint key social processes that otherwise might remain hidden.
As a Centre which is both orientated towards application and inter- and multi-disciplinary in approach, a map of what we do is logically a network of the links between what we are concerned to management (hazards, water and coastal management) and the different environmental and societal dimensions in which we are primarily interested (factors of change, human and social aspects, governance and decision making).
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Waste Water Treatment Works, Rye Meads
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