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Report from transdisciplinary methods for developing nexus capabilities workshop
The report from the ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’ workshop, held at the University of Sussex on 29 and 30 June 2015, is now available. Download the report as a pdf Transdisciplinary Nexus Methods Workshop final Report 2015 questions In light of growing challenges in the just, equitable and sustainable global provision of water, […]
Research paper on tracing the water-energy-food nexus
Hayley Leck, Declan Conway and Judith Rees from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE along with Michael Bradshaw from Warwick Business School, have published a paper on ‘Tracing the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Description, Theory and Practice‘, in the Journal Geography Compass (Volume 9, Issue 8, pages 445–460, August 2015). The paper […]
Global impacts of UK food consumption conference, London 21-22 Oct 2015
The Zoological Society of London are running a major symposium on the global impacts of UK food consumption, in London 21 Oct – 22 Oct 2015. The event will tackle the challenge of how is to produce more food for more people on less land and with less environmental impact. The number of mouths to feed […]
Nexus2020 question submissions closes with over 700 entries
By Hannah Tranter, Natural Capital Leaders Platform, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. On 31 July 2015, Nexus2020 question collection formally ended with over 700 submissions from a range of people including business practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, non-governmental organisations and sustainability specialists. The Nexus2020 team is delighted that the project’s call for questions has received higher than […]
Last chance to submit a question to Nexus2020
The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is working with academics and business practitioners to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities that could help make business practices more sustainable, asking What are the most important questions around business practice that, if answered, could help companies manage their dependencies and impacts upon food, energy, water […]
Nexus2020 short film
Learn all you need to know about the Nexus2020 project through this 3 minute video. The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is working with academics and business practitioners to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities that could help make business practices more sustainable. Update – Friday 31 July 2015: QUESTION SUBMISSION IS NOW CLOSED. […]
Methods workshop talks
The Nexus Network workshop on ‘Transdisciplinary Methods for Developing Nexus Capabilities’, was held at the University of Sussex, UK on 29-30 June 2015. The workshop took a critical look the research challenge in addressing nexus issues and thinking was stimulated by the Discussion Paper which was made available before the meeting. Here is a run-through […]
Methods workshop storify
The Storify brings together all the online discussions and ideas from the #transdisciplinaryworkshop held on 29 and 30 June in Sussex. Image credit: participants in the workshop by Nathan Oxley, Impact, Communications and Engagement Officer, from the STEPS centre. [View the story “Transdisciplinary methods workshop” on Storify] Tweet Follow @uk_nexus
Global Food Security – £7M call coming soon
The Global Food Security programme will announce a 5-year interdisciplinary programme of research, in September 2015. The programme has been co-designed by BBSRC, ESRC, NERC, Defra and FSA, in partnership with wider stakeholders, and will address a major food security challenge: ‘Resilience of the UK food system in a global context’. Global Food Security (GFS) […]
Sustainable use of organic resources for bioenergy, food and water
A Nexus Network thinkpiece has provided the basis for a research paper ‘Sustainable use of organic resources for bioenergy, food and water provision in rural Sub-Saharan Africa’ published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 50, October 2015, Pages 903–917. You can read the full paper on the journal website. The paper reviews […]