The CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a three-year JPI Urban Europe project that has recently been included in the Urban Transformations portfolio. Led by the University of Portsmouth, the research…
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…
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…
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…
Ralitsa Hiteva In the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia, many people prepare pickled vegetables (zimnina) for the winter months. This widespread practice touches on basic service issues like water and energy supply, as well as food…
Saurabh Arora (SPRU, University of Sussex, UK) and Leandro Giatti (SPH, USP, Brazil) Public health and urban sustainability are inextricably linked. The World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasized this, drawing attention to the critical interdependence of…
Dr James White, CaCHE Co-Investigator based at the University of Glasgow, will lead an international evidence review on high-rise residential development. This blog provides more information about the project and how to get involved. The number of…
To assess whether research is relevant to society, ask the stakeholders, say Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson and Beth Perry. This article was originally posted on Nature. Advocates of co-production encourage collaboration between professional researchers and those…
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