<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Sub-theme 1.3. Environment, Natural Resources, and Climate Change </strong></span>

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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Aim</strong></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The aim of this theme is to sustainably improve livelihoods, reduce poverty and ensure food security using research-based solutions to environmental problems, land degradation and ecosystem services.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Description </strong></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The sub-theme focuses on researching and developing sound management practices and technologies for high priority environmental challenges, such as pollution (of water, soil and air), climate change, disasters (drought, flood, and landslide), and trade-offs between environmental laws and investment and seeking solutions for problems related to major natural resources use and management (soil, forest, land, biodiversity and ecosystems).</span>

<a name="_Toc389157617"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Research Areas</strong></span>

<a name="_Toc389157618"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.3.1. Environmental research, development, and management</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157619"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.3.2. Natural resources analysis, use, and management</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157620"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.3.3. Water resources assessment, development, utilization, and management</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157621"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.3.4. Climate change and its management</em></span>

<a name="_Toc389157622"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.3.5. Non-renewable resources</em></span>

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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sub-theme-1.3-description.pdf"><u>For the details, click here </u></a></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-Sub-theme-1.3-Priority-research-areas.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2017</u></a></span>

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/10/2016-Sub-theme-1.3-Priority-research-areas.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2016</u></a></span>