Outputs of Nexus2020
The outputs from the Nexus Network Nexus2020 project, led by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, will be revealed at the Nexus Network Scales, levels and spaces of the nexus Conference, on Thursday 19 November 2015, London. Nexus2020 brings together business, academics, policy makers and civil society to determine the most important questions that […]
Job opportunity: Centre Manager, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
The ESRC-funded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), at the University of Surrey, is looking for a full time Centre Manager. The Centre manager will be responsible for the day to day management of the Centre and will support the Director in the management and delivery of the research portfolio, reporting, event management […]
Nexus Network conference, 19 Nov 2015, London
Scales, levels and spaces of the nexus. Questions of scale are crucial in addressing the linked nexus challenges of food, energy, water and the environment. The nexus is often framed as a global security problem, but this can obscure alternative understandings of interactions and trade-offs at local, regional and national levels. The Nexus Network second […]
£14M for research on: resilience of the UK food system in a global context
The Global Food Security programme, involving BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, Defra, FSA and the Scottish Government, has made £14M available for research on Resilience of the UK food system in a global context. Deadline: 27 October 2015. Themes The programme will fund research in one or more of the following themes: 1. Optimising the productivity, resilience and […]
What is transdisciplinarity?
Blog by Ruth Welters. If you came to the Methods workshop in June 2015 and have read the workshop report then you will already be familiar with the term ‘transdisciplinarity’ and what is meant by it. But just in case you missed the workshop or are wondering what academics mean by this term, I thought […]
Report from transdisciplinary methods for developing nexus capabilities workshop
The report from the ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’ workshop, held at the University of Sussex on 29 and 30 June 2015, is now available. Download the report as a pdf Transdisciplinary Nexus Methods Workshop final Report 2015 questions In light of growing challenges in the just, equitable and sustainable global provision of water, […]
Research paper on tracing the water-energy-food nexus
Hayley Leck, Declan Conway and Judith Rees from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE along with Michael Bradshaw from Warwick Business School, have published a paper on ‘Tracing the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Description, Theory and Practice‘, in the Journal Geography Compass (Volume 9, Issue 8, pages 445–460, August 2015). The paper […]
Global impacts of UK food consumption conference, London 21-22 Oct 2015
The Zoological Society of London are running a major symposium on the global impacts of UK food consumption, in London 21 Oct – 22 Oct 2015. The event will tackle the challenge of how is to produce more food for more people on less land and with less environmental impact. The number of mouths to feed […]
Nexus2020 question submissions closes with over 700 entries
By Hannah Tranter, Natural Capital Leaders Platform, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. On 31 July 2015, Nexus2020 question collection formally ended with over 700 submissions from a range of people including business practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, non-governmental organisations and sustainability specialists. The Nexus2020 team is delighted that the project’s call for questions has received higher than […]
Last chance to submit a question to Nexus2020
The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is working with academics and business practitioners to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities that could help make business practices more sustainable, asking What are the most important questions around business practice that, if answered, could help companies manage their dependencies and impacts upon food, energy, water […]
