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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
