The EPD Group constitutes one of the largest groups of researchers working on globalisation, development and the environment in the UK. Research is undertaken into aspects of conflict, territoriality and the state, in a number of regional contexts. These include the developing area of geopolitics, which also encompasses comparative work on borders, frontiers and territory, both in current and historical forms. The research group is also interested in governance, poverty and development, in the institutional legitimacy of the state and the management of resources, and especially common property resources, in and between states.
Specific research themes are:
- Governance, resources and territoriality;
- Sustainable livelihoods, development and human security;
- Globalisation, environmental policy and North/South relations