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Democratizing public health and urban sustainability: how can nexus framings be useful?
In this post, Saurabh Arora (SPRU, University of Sussex, UK) and Leandro Giatti (SPH, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) consider how nexus framings can contribute to research on public health and urban sustainability for addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, arguing that careful consideration be given to the complexity of cross-sectoral connections between health, food, […]
Political Populism and Sustainability
Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate and Culture at King’s College London, contributor to our recent conference on Sustainability in Turbulent Times, reflects on the implication of recent world events for those of us working in the fields of environment, social justice and sustainability. “The first response of a scientist or scholar to surprising physical or […]
Conference on Sustainability in Turbulent Times
A massive thank you to everyone who attended last week’s Sustainability in Turbulent Times conference! Three hundred researchers, policy makers, business leaders and civil society practitioners gathered in London last Thursday to discuss the sustainability implications of the ongoing turbulence in the global political landscape. Following an inspiring keynote address from former UNEP executive director, […]
Speakers announced for Sustainability in Turbulent Times event, Thursday 16 March 2017, London
Speakers from academia, the public and private sector will offer thought-provoking contributions at the Sustainability in Turbulent Times event, Thursday 16 March 2017, London, on topics ranging from the implications of recent swings towards populism and nationalism for the relationship between inequality, democracy and sustainability and the likely implications of Brexit for agriculture, fisheries, wildlife, […]
Registration now open for Sustainability in Turbulent Times event, Thursday 16 March 2017, London
Over the next few years, the British exit from the EU, the new US administration, and unpredictable waves of populism and authoritarianism are likely to recast key environmental and social policies and to have profound effects on the prospects for sustainable prosperity. International frameworks of governance and collaboration will need to be redesigned, and the legitimacy […]
What is the role of a researcher-activist?
Anni Beukes from Stellenbosch University offers her reflections on the role of a ‘researcher-activist’, together with local communities, in re-thinking, remaking and re-inventing the possibilities for just and equitable locally specific and adaptive technologies for the provision of food, water and energy. Anni draws from her experience of working with communities federated to SDI in […]
Nexus2020 paper published- co-designed research themes to tackle global challenges
A research paper showing how collaboration between business and academia can identify the most urgent research priorities to ensure the sustainability of food, energy, water and the environment is published in the journal Sustainability Science. The paper draws on the Nexus Network Nexus2020 activities, led by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Companies both depend upon […]
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 […]
