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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Domestic nexus findings
The Nexus Network ‘Domestic Nexus’ project examined the dynamics of consumption at the domestic scale. The project was run by Matt Watson, Peter Jackson and Liz Sharp from University of Sheffield with Dale Southerton, David Evans, Alan Ward and Ali Browne from the University of Manchester. The project set out to explore how the framing […]
Is the nexus relevant on the ground?
Blog post by Susan Conlon, PhD Candidate at the Water Security Research Centre, School of International Development, University of East Anglia. The ‘Is the nexus relevant on the ground?’ session at the Nexus, resource conflicts and social justice was very useful for a relative newcomer to nexus thinking like myself. In this session, Jeremy Allouche […]
The nexus: a management system, policy process or a way of life?
Blog post by Susan Conlon, PhD Candidate at the Water Security Research Centre, School of International Development, University of East Anglia. In the second session of The Nexus, resource conflicts and social justice workshop, on Monday 29 February 2016, I found Jeremy Allouche’s (IDS) contribution to dominant and alternative ways of thinking about the nexus […]
Where’s Wally in the nexus?
Blog post by Daphne Page, PhD candidate at the Centre for Food Policy, City University London. I indulged in a bit of ‘disciplinary tourism’ this past week by attending the Nexus Network Resource Conflicts and Social Justice workshop on Monday 29 Feb 2016, in Sussex. My work focuses on the development of sustainable urban […]