Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) is a leading interdisciplinary research centre in the field of sustainable development and decision making.
CSERGE was founded in 1991 with the explicitly interdisciplinary remit of examining all aspects of decision making regarding environmental resources.
The Centre consists of a number of collaborating disciplines including economics, political science, social and group sciences, geography, life cycle analysis, information systems and the natural sciences.
It has won national and international praise for its pioneering research on the integration of this diverse set of disciplines to provide holistic and practical decision making systems. CSERGE was core funded by the ESRC for sixteen years.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Corrado Di Maria
- School of Economics - Professor of Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
- Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research - Member
- Research and Innovation Services - ClimateUEA Academic Chair
- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) - Member
- Applied Econometrics And Finance - Member
- Economic Theory - Member
- Environment, Resources and Conflict - Member
- ClimateUEA - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching and Research
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Silvia Ferrini
- School of Environmental Sciences - Senior Research Fellow
- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) - Member
- Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas - Member
- Environmental Social Sciences - Member
Person: Research and Analogous, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member
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Gaetano Grilli
- Norwich Business School - Lecturer in Business
- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) - Member
- Finance Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching and Research
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Managing shelf sea carbon cycles and greenhouse gas release from physical disturbance of the seafloor (C-FLOOR)
Turner, K. (Principal Investigator) & Grilli, G. (Co-Investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/11/24 → 31/10/28
Project: Research
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Sustainability and Resilience of the UK Fishing Fleet
Di Maria, C. (Principal Investigator)
Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
1/10/24 → 31/03/28
Project: Training
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OpenCLIM_LANDS: Open Evaluation of Climate-resilient Interventions for Land Management, Soil Health and Net Zero
Warren, R. (Principal Investigator), Butler, S. (Co-Investigator), He, H. (Co-Investigator), Jenkins, K. (Co-Investigator), Lovett, A. (Co-Investigator), Mao, L. (Co-Investigator), Minns, A. (Co-Investigator), Price, J. (Co-Investigator), Reid, B. (Co-Investigator), Vaughan, N. (Co-Investigator) & Manful, D. (Researcher)
1/08/24 → 31/07/27
Project: Research
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Fishery rent: a spatial and species level analysis for marine policy
Gennaro, V. D., Grilli, G., Ferrini, S. & Kerry Turner, R., 27 Apr 2026, ARPHA Preprints.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
Open Access -
Socio-economic evidence for sustainable fisheries: Pyramids of Life Project - Socioeconomic Strand
Ferrini, S., Bailey, L., Bark, R., Grilli, G., Mcharg, E. & Pitchford, J., 7 Jan 2026Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Open Access -
Do public and farmer preferences for natural flood management align?
King, P., Bark, R. H. & Lovett, A., Dec 2025, In: Journal of Flood Risk Management. 18, 4, 22 p., e70130.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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ehk21/genetic-algorithms-for-landscape-decisions: Genetic algorithms for landscape decisions
Knight, E. (Creator), Balzter, H. (Creator), Breeze, T. D. (Creator), Brettschneider, J. (Creator), Girling, R. D. (Creator), Hagen-Zanker, A. (Creator), Image, M. (Creator), Johnson, C. G. (Creator), Lee, C. (Creator), Lovett, A. (Creator), Petrovsky, S. (Creator), Varah, A. (Creator), Whelan, M. (Creator), Yang, S. (Creator) & Gardner, E. (Creator), Zenodo, 3 Sept 2024
Dataset
Prizes
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Consultancy Project of the Year, UEA Innovation and Impact Awards
Lovett, A. (Recipient), Dockerty, T. (Recipient), Sunnenberg, G. (Recipient) & Day, S. (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Lead author on 'best paper in conference': Seyfang, G., Hielscher, S., Hargreaves, T., Martiskainen, M. and Smith, A. (2013) ‘Sustainable energy niche? Reflections on community energy case studies’ paper presented at 4th International Conference on Sustainability Transitions, Zurich June 19-21 2013
Seyfang, G. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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Norwich Good Economy Commission (External organisation)
Longhurst, N. (Academic Lead)
2020 → 2022Activity: Membership › Network, Working Group or Professional Association
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Journal of Litter and Environmental Quality (Journal)
Seyfang, G. (Editorial board member)
2016 → …Activity: Editorial work › Publication editorial role
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Digital Landscape Architecture 2014
Lovett, A. (Chair)
May 2014Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Press/Media
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Blog article: Defining Health Equity in Neighborhood Desig
10/09/13
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution