Resource Conflicts workshop – Monday 29 Feb 2016, Sussex, UK
The Nexus, resource conflicts and social justice workshop was led by Professor Lyla Mehta from the Institute of Development Studies, and was held at IDS, Brighton, Sussex, UK. We invited participants from academia, policy, business and the third sector. Date: Monday 29 February 2016. Venue: Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. aims In recent […]
Scales, levels and spaces of the nexus conference 19 Nov 2015
The Nexus Network Annual Conference 2015 was held on Thursday 19 November 2015, in London. We’ll be launching the next phase of our grant funding scheme and also letting you know details of our upcoming workshops. get involved online You can follow the day and engage with our speakers on twitter with @uk_nexus and #nexus2015. […]
Defra Open Environment 4 Nov 2015
A team from the Nexus Network and the Valuing Nature Partnership ran a session on ‘Natural Capital: data, valuation and decision implementation‘ on 4 November 2015, as part of the Defra #OpenEnvironment 2 day consultation. Rory Stewart MP, Defra Minister with responsibility for the natural environment, floods and water, resource and environmental management and rural affairs, […]
Modelling the energy-water-food nexus – PhD opportunity
Bioenergy production affects food prices. Electricity and agriculture are dependent on water availability. Water and crops are impacted by climate change. People, prices, and natural systems are all interconnected. Interactions between the energy, water and food systems under a changing climate are an important research frontier in applied environmental science. Systems models incorporating both economic […]
Defra Fellow report
Dr Anna Krzywoszynska, Post Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University, has published her findings on how the nexus domains are currently being approached within the Department of Food and Rural Affairs and where there are opportunities for furthering cross-domain dialogue and action. This work was carried out as a joint Nexus Network – Defra fellowship, with […]
Photo competition: what does the nexus mean to you?
This has now closed – thanks to everyone who took part. What do the links between food, energy, water and the environment mean to you? Let us know by entering our online Nexus Network photo competition as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. We would like to see how food, energy, water and […]
Competing demands for land
How can the multiple and sometimes competing demands we make from our land, such as expansion of housing or increased production of low-carbon bioenergy, be managed both now and into the future, as population grows and climate variability increases? These questions are addressed in the Nexus Network thinkpiece on ‘The nexus in a changing climate: […]
Energy, food and water security in West Africa
Professor Subhes Bhattacharyya, from the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University and Nicola Bugatti and Hannes Bauer from the ECOWAS Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), investigate approaches to energy, food and water security in West Africa in their Nexus Network thinkpiece ‘A bottom-up approach to the nexus of energy, food […]
Impact investing and the nexus
Dr Frederik Dahlmann, Assistant Professor of Global Energy, University of Warwick, investigates nexus opportunities and challenges within the financial community, in the Nexus Network thinkpiece ‘Integrating Impact Investment and Nexus Thinking – Opportunities and challenges‘ Dahlmann_Nexus_Final2015 Frederik Dahlmann says In this paper, I investigate the extent to which the financial community is aware of and […]
Sustainable Intensification Network
Up to £80k a year, for up to three years, is available for a network on sustainable intensification of agriculture, funded by BBSRC, in partnership with NERC. Deadline: 12 November 2015. The Network will encourage and facilitate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research relevant to the sustainable intensification of agriculture (SI). Aims Bring together new combinations […]