Sustainable development and the nexus – short film
Professor Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies talks about the nexus and sustainable development. Many thanks to the Overseas Development Institute for the film. Melissa Leach says If we’re to build development approaches that reduce poverty, we have to integrate sustainability into them. Sustainability isn’t just about environment, it’s also about economy […]
Improving decisions at the food, water, energy and environment nexus: values and valuation
Workshop announcement. Our production of and decisions regarding food, water, energy and the natural environment are bound together in a nexus of interdependencies. This means that decisions regarding say the use of land for food production inevitably impact upon all other elements of this nexus. The numerous trade-offs involved in both business and government decisions […]
Need for better engagement with social science
A research paper on the need for better engagement with social science approaches to tackle environmental change is published in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change (Volume:4, Pages:763–768, 2014, doi:10.1038/nclimate2339). The authors argue that Calls for more broad-based, integrated, useful knowledge now abound in the world of global environmental change science. They evidence […]
Valuing Natural Capital in Low Carbon Energy Pathways – resources
Photocredit: Beverly Goodwin. Resources are now available from the Valuing Natural Capital in Low Carbon Energy Pathways meeting that was held in Warwick on 21 & 22 July 2014. The resources include pdfs of talks given on the Nexus Network; the new Valuing Nature programme, information on the RCUK Energy hub, the UKERC programme, plus a […]
Successful thinkpieces announced
We are delighted to announce that 13 applications to the Nexus Network thinkpiece call of June 2014 have been selected for funding. The selected thinkpieces will tackle issues from the governance of the nexus; energy, food and water security in West Africa; impact investing; fast-moving circular goods; citizen science and imagining a sewerless society. The […]
Valuing Natural Capital in Low Carbon Energy Pathways
Blog by Ruth Welters. How do you value natural capital in low carbon energy pathways? What does it mean? I went to a 2-day meeting in Warwick on 21 & 22 July 2014 to find out. The meeting was run by NERC and the aim was to get researchers from the worlds of energy and […]
Nexus Network: first advisory group meeting 8 July 2014
Blog by Ruth Welters. On Tuesday 8 July 2014, I went to the first meeting of the Nexus Network advisory group, in London. It was great to meet many people from the advisory group and to see how enthusiastic people are about Nexus issues. The advisory group chair is Martin Cooke, from ANGLE management services […]
Recent Nexus Network Talks
Last week was a very busy week for Nexus Network Director Professor James Wilsdon. On Monday 23 June 2014, James spoke about ‘The Nexus Network: new connections in food, water, energy and the environment’ to researchers from the University of Warwick and explained how they could get involved in the Network. On Wed 25 June […]
What do we want from our agricultural land?
Blog by Ruth Welters, Communications and Impact Manager for the Nexus Network. Photocredit: David Wright. Agricultural land is used for many things: we use land to grow food, but the same land is also needed to help provide clean water; to regulate water flow to prevent extremes of drought and flooding; grow biofuels, offer recreation […]
Joining up policy and research across resource and sustainability issues
Photocredit: Defra. On Friday 27 June 2014, the Nexus Network and Defra jointly hosted a workshop ‘Joining-up across natural resource and social sustainability issues‘. The workshop brought together around 100 people from policy and research organisations, including Defra, the Natural Capital Committee, Welsh Government, Scottish Government, JNCC, Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission. Setting the […]
