UKERC review on energy and natural capital
The UK Energy Research Centre are carrying out a review on ‘Energy Pathways and Valuing Natural Capital‘ as part of their series of technology and policy assessments. The work investigates the links between energy pathways and ecosystem services: to understand interactions between these, and to provide information that will allow scientists and policy makers to […]
Nexus and Security: STEPS centre working paper
The STEPS Centre have recently published a working paper by Shilpi Srivastava and Lyla Mehta, called ‘Not Another Nexus? Critical Thinking on the New Security Convergence in Energy, Food, Climate and Water’. This paper sets out some of the background to Nexus thinking, looks at how Nexus has become framed in a ‘security’ agenda and […]
Twitter chat: Tues 17 Feb: Centre for Evaluating Complexity
On Tues 17 Feb 2015 starting at 1300, ESRC will host a twitter chat on behalf of the 6 funders of the Centre for Evaluating Complexity. If you were not able to make the Bidders Event….or if you have any further questions about the call then please take part! Follow the discussion with @uk_nexus and @esrc using […]
Agenda: Bidders event Wed 11 Feb – Centre for Evaluating Complexity
The Centre for Evaluating Complexity across the Energy-Environment-Food Nexus will pioneer, test and promote innovative and inclusive methods to analyse evaluations across the energy-environment-food nexus where complexity presents an integral challenge to policy interventions. A Bidders launch event will be held on 11 February 2015 in London The aim of the ‘bidders launch event‘ on […]
Workshop for virtual joint centres in agricultural nitrogen, 11 March 2015
BBSRC are holding a workshop to discuss the proposed upcoming Newton Fund call for Virtual Joint Centres in Agricultural Nitrogen with Brazil, China and India. The workshop is open to UK academics who are eligible to receive BBSRC funding. Date: 11 March 2015, 10am – 4pm Venue: Park Crescent Conference Centre, London The workshop will […]
Nexus thinking for food security – report
The Global Food Security (GFS) programme has produced a new report, highlighting the outcomes of a ‘nexus thinking’ workshop held in June 2014. The report identifies interdisciplinary research priorities and ways to foster cross-sector collaboration to stimulate nexus thinking. In a world characterised by a rapidly rising population, new ways of conceptualising links between food, […]
Newton fund opportunities: India and China
Two Newton Fund opportunities may be of interest: 1. Sustaining Water Resources for Food, Energy & Ecosystem Services in India- Scoping workshop Update: the deadline to apply to NERC was 12 January 2015. NERC is inviting applications from UK scientists to attend a jointly organised workshop with the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), in India on […]
Call closed: Nexus Network Defra Fellow
this call has now closed. Nexus Network Policy Placement in Defra on ‘Environmental values and valuation at the nexus‘. The deadline for applications is 4pm on Wednesday 7 January 2015. An opportunity for a four month secondment into Defra has become available, to work at the interface between research and policy through the Nexus Network. […]
Workshop ‘Sustainable Gas Futures’, Brazil, 25 – 27 February 2015
If you are interested in this workshop please apply by 12:00 (UK time) on 13 January 2015 to newtonsgf@nerc.ac.uk. NERC is inviting applications from UK scientists and industry representatives to attend a joint workshop with FAPESP Sao Paulo Research Foundation in Brazil on 25 – 27 February 2015 to scope the science themes for the […]
Report from Values and Valuation workshop
The first Nexus Network workshop Improving decisions at the food, water, energy and environment nexus: values and valuation, led by Professor Ian Bateman from the University of East Anglia, was held on Friday 28 November 2014. The workshop brought together 50 people from government, the business sector and wider society together with researchers in this […]