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Building capacity for transdisciplinary research – what do the funders need to know?

In this post, Ola Michalec and Cian O’Donovan reflect on the final stage of the Nexus Network project – mapping capabilities and capacities for transdisciplinary research. Between 2014 and 2018, the Nexus Network funded multiple initiatives exploring the intersections between the food, water, energy and environmental domains of the sustainability challenges. Starting with funded think-pieces […]

5 years ago energy, environment, food, projects, sustainability, water More
 

Reshaping the Domestic Nexus: final reports

The Reshaping the Domestic Nexus project brought new evidence and understandings of household practices to the attention of key policy partners, to inform intervention to reshape consumption of resources within the nexus of water-energy-food. From initial design of the proposed project to delivery of final reports, the project has been undertaken in collaboration with: Department […]

5 years ago energy, environment, food, water More
 

Nexus Shocks Fellowship: exploring the findings

Informing decision-making and resilience to nexus shocks: Exploring the findings from the Nexus Shocks Fellowship Dr Candice Howarth Background to the project The Nexus Shocks project explored how to improve decision-making and resilience related to nexus shocks. The work consisted of two phases and was funded in 2015 by the UK’s Economic and Social Research […]

6 years ago energy, environment, food, projects, water More
 

Nexus Brexit: final report

Awarded a Nexus Network networking grant in April 2015, the Nexus Brexit project led by Dr Guy Ziv, University of Leeds, has been focusing on the consequences that Brexit could have on UK water-food-energy systems and the natural environment. Following the decision taken by the UK public in June 2016 to leave the EU, the team used the data […]

6 years ago energy, environment, food, projects, water More
 

Nexus and beyond: 3 things that matter for transformative change

Bipashyee Ghosh, a doctoral student at SPRU attended the Nexus Network workshop on ‘Transforming Innovation: addressing nexus challenges with radical change’ on 17th March 2017.  Here she shares her thoughts from the day, arguing that transformation towards sustainability at the nexus requires attention be paid to transdisciplinary knowledge; appreciation of plurality and diversity; and experimentation […]

6 years ago #SITT2017, energy, environment, food, water More
 

Sustainability in Turbulent Times Report Launch

We are very excited to announce the publication of the final report from the Nexus Network “Sustainability in Turbulent Times” which we are launching to a capacity crowd at our conference today in London. Since its launch in June 2014, the Nexus Network has worked to support transdisciplinary research at the food-water-energy-environment nexus, and to […]

6 years ago #SITT2017, energy, environment, projects, water More
 

Nexus POSTnote now available

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has released a Nexus POSTnote for parliamentarians. The POSTnote summarises understandings of the interactions between water, energy and food production and examines how nexus approaches can be used to inform policy decisions. Key points include A nexus assessment seeks to describe the interactions of water, food, energy, environmental […]

6 years ago energy, environment, food, water More
 

The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice

Dunu Roy, from Hazards International, Delhi spoke on The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Read the full paper here DunuRoy_UrbanNexusesofInjustice_May2016Brighton Dunu Roy says The present nexus of resource use is clearly unsustainable and unjust. The use of superior and more efficient technologies is only […]

7 years ago energy, environment, food, water More
 

Unpacking and re-assembling the urban nexus

Tim Moss, Guest Professor in the Integrative Research Institute on the Transformation of Human-Environment Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin, spoke on ‘Unpacking and re-assembling the ‘urban nexus’: a socio-technical perspective on urban infrastructures’ at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop. Tim spoke on the aspirations and critical questions of nexus thinking; the meanings […]

7 years ago energy, events, food, water More
 

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 […]

7 years ago about, environment, food, partners, people, sustainability, water More
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