Integrating economic and land use models to anticipate rural vulnerability to climate change

Dr Evan Fraser, University of Leeds (Email)

Dr Fraser will be using tools from range of disciplines to consider how climate change may affect food production and distribution, and the rural economy.  He will start his research with a historical assessment of cases where relatively small environmental problems have had major effects on food production and distribution systems, and use these to identify key factors that make systems vulnerable.  Dr Fraser then aims to assess the importance of these factors in a range of different circumstances and apply this knowledge to predicted changes in our climate, to see what the effects might be.