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Urban infrastructure landscape and the politics of dwelling

Vanesa Castan Broto, University College London, UK, spoke on Urban infrastructure landscape and the politics of dwelling at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Vanesa outlined an attempt to rethink theoretical approaches to understand how infrastructure relates to processes of urbanization in the city. Taking a landscape perspective on dwelling practices, […]

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Unpacking and re-assembling the urban nexus

Tim Moss, Guest Professor in the Integrative Research Institute on the Transformation of Human-Environment Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin, spoke on ‘Unpacking and re-assembling the ‘urban nexus’: a socio-technical perspective on urban infrastructures’ at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop. Tim spoke on the aspirations and critical questions of nexus thinking; the meanings […]

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Making visible the hidden cogs of the urban nexus

Blog post by Suzanne Fisher-Murray. This blog was first posted on the STEPS Centre website. Image credit:  Washing clothing in San Juan de Lurigancho, a slum on the outskirts of Lima. Credit: Andrea Moroni. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), with thanks to STEPS Centre. On the steep hills on the outskirts of Lima, slums like San Juan […]

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Sustainable and healthy food – views from the city of Brighton and Hove

The Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop was held on 12 and 13 May 2016 at the University of Sussex. Around 60 people were involved and took stock of what kind of plural understandings of ‘urban nexuses’ are emerging, produced by (partnerships between) activists, communities, think tanks, corporations, and multilateral organizations, natural scientists, humanities scholars and […]

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CUSP event: The Nature of Prosperity, 23 May, London

What can prosperity mean in an age of environmental and social limits? Join Dr Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, in conversation with long-time peace and environmental activist Satish Kumar, at the first event from the ESRC-funded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). Other speakers include: Jane Elliott (Chief Executive of the […]

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Research paper on Understanding barriers to nexus decision making

Candice Howarth from Anglia Ruskin University and Irene Monasterolo from Boston University, USA, have published their research on ‘Understanding barriers to decision making in the UK energy-food-water nexus: The added value of interdisciplinary approaches’ in Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 61, July 2016, Pages 53–60. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.03.014 The paper presents the findings from five themed workshops carried […]

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Reclaiming the Nexus space

Blog post by Sandra Pointel, Doctoral Researcher, Science Policy Research Unit. For those concerned with social justice, reclaiming the NEXUS space is particularly important, to avoid the hijacking of the agenda by narrow understandings. At the recent workshop on the Nexus, resource conflicts and social justice, Erik Millestone, Professor at SPRU, emphasised the contested nature […]

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Reclaiming the Nexus from below

Blog post by Sandra Pointel, Doctoral Researcher, Science Policy Research Unit. The recent workshop on the Nexus, resource conflicts and social justice, hosted at the Institute of Development Studies on 29 Feb 2016, addressed issues around ‘reclaiming the NEXUS from below’. Despite much buzz around the energy-food-water NEXUS over the recent years, much contestation remains […]

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Organic Resource Use Network in rural Africa

The Network of Organic Resource use in rural Africa activity worked with a range of Ethiopian partners, including regional and local policy makers, scientists, entrepreneurs, industry and civil society to co-design research on organic resource use in rural areas of Ethiopia. Activities included group discussions, households and civil society organisations, meetings with NGOs and policy […]

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Resource Conflicts and Social Justice workshop report

The Nexus Network Resource Conflicts and Social Justice workshop, held at the Institute of Development Studies on 29 February 2016, provided the opportunity to tease out often implicit and unstated challenges that come with nexus frameworks and nexus thinking. Aims The aim of the workshop was to stimulate debate between diverse stakeholders on these contested […]

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