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ESRC-DFID workshop on sustainability, poverty and conflict/fragility, 7 March 2016, London
The global challenges of addressing growth and prosperity whilst ensuring we tackle extreme poverty, leave no one behind, and deal with environmental sustainability are immense. There will inevitably be both winners and losers, with great potential for conflict of different kinds, and great need for sensitive policy design. Securing meaningful sustainable development for all will need […]
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus announced
The £2.45 million Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus will contribute to more effective policy-making by pioneering, testing and promoting evaluation approaches and methods across the energy, environment and food nexus, where complexity presents a challenge to policy interventions. The Centre will be led by Professor Nigel Gilbert at the University of Surrey, […]
The Nexus Shocks Network – what are we learning?
The Nexus Shocks Network, chaired by Dr Candice Howarth of the Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, was funded under the Nexus Network networking grants call. In this blog Dr Candice Howarth reflects on what we are learning about nexus shocks. About the Nexus Shocks Network The Nexus Shocks Network brings together interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial […]
Delhi sustainability events – Jan 2016
Members of the Nexus Network team, including Professor Lyla Mehta, Professor Fiona Marshall and Dr Saurabh Arora are involved in a number of events in Delhi at the end of January 2016. The South Asia Sustainability Hub & Knowledge Network will be launched on 28 Jan 2016 at the India International Centre. The hub aims […]
Nexus Thinking conference on 30 August – 2 September 2016, London
The Royal Geographical Society ‘Nexus thinking‘ Conference on 30 August – 2 September 2016, London, will be chaired by Nexus Network advisory group member, Professor Peter Jackson from the University of Sheffield. The nexus thinking approach has attracted a surge of interest in the last five years among academics, policy-makers and third sector organizations. The […]
Organic Resource Use Network – Ethiopia workshop
The Organic Resource Use in Rural Africa Network held a workshop at Hawassa University, Ethiopia on 5 December 2015 as part of the discussions between the Ethiopian and UK academic partners, with various stakeholders. A range of participants including people from local and regional government; regional and local bureaus dealing with water, energy, agriculture and […]
Nexus2020 update
Dr Bhaskar Vira from the University of Cambridge gave an update on the Nexus2020 project at the Nexus Network conference on 19 Nov 2015. The Nexus2020 project asked for responses to What are the most important questions around business practice that, if answered, could help companies manage their dependencies and impacts upon food, energy, water […]
Nexus Network partnership grants – £300,000 available
THIS CALL HAS NOW CLOSED. Apply by 1700 UK time on 31 Jan 2016 for the Nexus Network Research Partnership Grants. The Nexus Network has £300,000 available to support inter- and trans-disciplinary research projects on nexus themes. Projects should improve understanding of food-energy-water nexus interactions and support actions to improve their sustainability. Proposals are invited […]
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 […]
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 […]
