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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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nexus issues in parliament – air quality
The ‘The Nexus in Parliament‘ project, a collaboration between Green Alliance, King’s College London and the Grantham Institute at Imperial College and was led by Professor David Demeritt, brought natural and social scientists together with parliamentarians to explore parliamentary capacity to deliberate on nexus issues. The project aimed to: establish a network to foster future collaborations […]
