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Nexus Shocks Fellow Candice Howarth

Dr Candice Howarth from the University of Surrey has started her work as the Nexus Network Nexus Shocks Fellowship holder. The Fellowship will explore in greater depth and build on the findings of the Nexus Shocks network activities funded under a Nexus network networking grant. It will analyse strategic national processes of decision-making and risk management […]

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£500K awarded to explore food, energy, water and environment interactions in UK and Africa

Five research partnership awards will advance understanding of the food- energy- water- environment interactions and support actions to improve their sustainability. £500,000 of funding from the Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Nexus Network will enable researchers to build meaningful interdisciplinary research collaboration in locations across both the UK and Africa. The studies form […]

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The Urban Nexus: disparities between citizens and users

Ralitsa Hiteva from SPRU at the University of Sussex spoke on ‘disparities between citizens and users’ at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Here is the text of her presentation:   This intervention is ‘inspired’ by a feeling of uneasiness that comes with thinking about what is being disassembled when different […]

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The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice

Dunu Roy, from Hazards International, Delhi spoke on The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Read the full paper here DunuRoy_UrbanNexusesofInjustice_May2016Brighton Dunu Roy says The present nexus of resource use is clearly unsustainable and unjust. The use of superior and more efficient technologies is only […]

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The hidden connections at the heart of cities

Fiona Marshall from the STEPS Centre and Ritu Priya from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi have published a blog on ‘Why we need to reveal the hidden connections at the heart of cities.’ The authors say Urban areas are intense meeting points of people and cultures, but they’re also places where more or less visible interactions happen: […]

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Nexus postdoctoral researcher post – business and natural capital- CLOSED

This post has now closed. The University of Cambridge are looking for a post doctoral researcher who will act as an intellectual bridge between the basic science of natural capital and ecosystem services and the dependencies on natural capital experienced by corporations in the agribusiness, apparel, retail and natural resource sectors. Location: Cambridge Salary: £28,982 to […]

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Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus: website launched

The ‘Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus’ is a £3m national research centre hosted by the University of Surrey, to ‘pioneer, test and promote innovative evaluation approaches and methods across nexus problem domains, such as biofuel production or climate change, where food, energy, water and environmental issues intersect.’ The CECAN website sets out […]

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How can networks, relationships and community help solutions to poverty and sustainability?

Bella Wheeler from the Brighton Unemployed Families Project spoke at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Neoliberal discourse puts emphasis on individual behaviour change as the solution to issues of poverty and sustainability but in an increasingly interconnected world, ideas of ‘the individual’ are inadequate for addressing what are understood to […]

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Stairways to heaven: the urban nexus in Lima

Adriana Allen, Professor of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability, University College London, UK, spoke on Beyond urban risk traps? Seeking the nexus through the everyday, at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. In the informal settlements on the edges of cities like Lima, a sizeable number of women and men struggle […]

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A scale perspective on the urban nexus

Liz Varga from Cranfield University, UK, spoke on A scale perspective on the ‘urban nexus’: the integration of different scales of infrastructure system at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Infrastructure systems have unique design characteristics that often lead to inertia and constrained future innovation. Is there potential for new forms […]

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