Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: rain routed down a catchment to the flood plain, generated, with the intensity of a scenario rising and falling
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Faculty
A basin is read from its relief down: the channel network the terrain sets, the discharge the catchment delivers, the vegetation and water the satellites see season by season.
The map
DepartmentDisciplineNexus Standard taught here
Numbered as on the faculty figure above.
Each discipline once, in its department.
The model every discipline of the faculty builds on, as a chain you can run: set its parameters, play its steps, read each citation.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow the faculty's subjects on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief as contours from the inline grid, rivers and canals, and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
The Nexus Standards areas whose standards the faculty's disciplines teach toward, with the number of standards and disciplines in each.
Emerging areas, the technologies changing practice and the bodies whose work sets the field's methods.
The newest developments cited on the faculty's discipline pages, sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Search termsEarth and Environmental Sciences; Water and Food Systems; Ecology and Land Systems; Climate and Ocean SciencesDerived from the Risk Academy page on Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for 10 disciplines, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
Water security and hydrology, Food systems and agriculture, Biodiversity and ecosystems, Land, forests and soils, Planetary boundaries and Earth system resilience, Climate science, variability and change, Oceans and coasts, Cryosphere and mountain systems, Earth observation and Earth system data, Atmosphere and air chemistry
The faculty's entry course, then its flagship pathways and the Academy flagship in Nexus-Based Risk Management.
Courses whose primary discipline is in this faculty.
Each programme joins disciplines from more than one faculty under an institute of the Academy, and appears on every faculty it spans.
The institute is the cross-faculty home of Nexus-Based Risk Management, the Academy's paradigm.
InstituteThe institute convenes the disciplines that study climate and nature risk from the physical science to the balance sheet.
Nexus Reports is the Consortium's quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
Each department lists its disciplines, courses and pathways; each discipline its scope, labs, technology and key terms.