This blog by Peter Kraftl, Principal Investigator of the project (Re)Connect the Nexus: Young Brazilians’ Experiences of and Learning About Food-Water-Energy, was originally posted on the RGS-IGB Geography Directions website. The Guardian newspaper recently reported that…
The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize is an annual opportunity to recognize and celebrate the success of ESRC-funded researchers in achieving and enabling outstanding economic and/or social impact from excellent social science research. All finalists have a…
This piece by Henry Overman, Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, has been reposted from the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. In January 2016, the WWCLG launched a…
The Consuming Urban Poverty project (Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities in Africa) recently launched a series of four policy briefings examining different aspects of food insecurity in urban Africa. This draws on…
Vlad Mykhnenko New research from the Sustainable Urban Development Programme (University of Oxford) and UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig (Germany) shows the gap between Europe’s haves and have-nots has been narrowing over the…
This blog by Professor Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University and now part of the project Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban…
Smart Urban Intermediaries – Trans-European Research, Learning and Action is a cutting-edge, ESRC-funded programme of research exploring smart urban development and social innovation in four case study cities: Amsterdam, Birmingham, Copenhagen and Glasgow. Bringing together academics…
Following the JPI Urban Sustainable Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy (FEW) Nexus call, a number of ESRC-funded projects were approved with a focus on developing more equitable and efficient approaches to urban resource management. Alleviating the growing pressures…
Earlier this year, following a major call by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), together granted some £2 million in funding to five exciting projects exploring…
The Africa Research Institute is hosting a book launch on 16 November, 12.30 – 2.30 pm, in London for two major publications, “Urban food systems governance and poverty in African cities” and “Tomatoes & taxi ranks:…
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