Geoscience for Africa
The Geoscience Africa initiative brings together an interdisciplinary group of geoscientists with partners from across Africa to address key geoscientific questions and socio-environmental challenges facing the continent.
Our work considers the resources required for a sustainable future, how to strengthen resilience in the face of a changing climate and diverse multi-hazard environment, and the complex environmental challenges that affect health, wellbeing and livelihoods on the continent. Our members have expertise in climate change and its impacts, energy geoscience, hydrogeology and hydrology, minerals, medical geology, multi-hazard risk reduction, palaeontology, paleoclimate studies, and seismology.
Through diverse partnerships, collaborative research, impact-generating activities, and capacity strengthening we are contributing to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and aligned strategies, such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Paris Climate Change Agreement. We recognise the responsibility of UK-based organisations to work in an ethical and respectful manner when operating internationally. We reflect on and implement good practice with regards to collaborative research in resource-poor settings and the practice of geoscience in such contexts.
Our thematic group is open to new collaborations, recognising the benefits of bringing together disciplines and sectors to address the challenges and exciting research questions relevant to Africa.
Sustainable Development Goals
This cross-cutting theme is relevant to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
