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The UK Natural Environment Research Council has announced its new priority research actions - part of existing themes for research funding.  Under its current Delivery Plan 2011-15, it is also reducing expenditure on national capability in order to focus a greater proportion of funding on the thematic areas. The actions are as follows: /...more

• Earth system modelling strategy implementation (£3m, contributes to climate system and earth system science themes)
• Greenhouse gas emissions and feedbacks (£8·1m, contributes to climate system and earth system science themes)
• Human-modified tropical forests (£8m, contributes to biodiversity and technologies themes)
• Mineral resources: science to sustain security of supply in a changing environment (£7m, contributes to sustainable use of natural resources theme)
• Resource recovery from waste (£6m, contributes to sustainable use of natural resources and environment, pollution and human health themes)
• Shelf sea biogeochemistry (£9.6m, contributes to earth system science theme)
• Flooding from intense rainfall (£5·2m, contributes to natural hazards theme)
• UK droughts (£6·5m, contributes to natural hazards and climate system themes)
• Radioactivity and the environment (£5m, contributes to environment, pollution and human health theme)
• Mathematics and informatics for 'omics (£4·5m, contributes to technologies theme)