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Urban infrastructure landscape and the politics of dwelling
Vanesa Castan Broto, University College London, UK, spoke on Urban infrastructure landscape and the politics of dwelling at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop on 12 May 2016. Vanesa outlined an attempt to rethink theoretical approaches to understand how infrastructure relates to processes of urbanization in the city. Taking a landscape perspective on dwelling practices, […]
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 […]
Sustainable and healthy food – views from the city of Brighton and Hove
The Nexus Network Urban Nexus workshop was held on 12 and 13 May 2016 at the University of Sussex. Around 60 people were involved and took stock of what kind of plural understandings of ‘urban nexuses’ are emerging, produced by (partnerships between) activists, communities, think tanks, corporations, and multilateral organizations, natural scientists, humanities scholars and […]
Reclaiming the Nexus space
Blog post by Sandra Pointel, Doctoral Researcher, Science Policy Research Unit. For those concerned with social justice, reclaiming the NEXUS space is particularly important, to avoid the hijacking of the agenda by narrow understandings. At the recent workshop on the Nexus, resource conflicts and social justice, Erik Millestone, Professor at SPRU, emphasised the contested nature […]
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 […]
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 […]
Understanding the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and its Implications for Governance, 15 and 16 June 2016, Germany
The “Understanding the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and its Implications for Governance“ event, supported by the German Science Foundation, will address challenges and key research gaps in dealing with the WEF nexus. The forum is also supported by the Sustainable Water Future Programme, linked to Future Earth. Date: 15 and 16 June 2016. Location: Osnabrück, Germany. Fee: €50. […]
ESRC-DFID workshop on sustainability, poverty and conflict/fragility, 7 March 2016, London
The global challenges of addressing growth and prosperity whilst ensuring we tackle extreme poverty, leave no one behind, and deal with environmental sustainability are immense. There will inevitably be both winners and losers, with great potential for conflict of different kinds, and great need for sensitive policy design. Securing meaningful sustainable development for all will need […]
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 […]
Governance innovations for the urban nexus – call for abstracts
Ralitsa Hiteva from SPRU at the University of Sussex and Chiara Farné Fratini from Aalborg University are running a session on ‘Governance innovations for the urban nexus ‘ at the Royal Geographical Society ‘Nexus thinking‘ Conference on 30 August – 2 September 2016, London. Governing the water-energy-food-environment nexus calls for innovative approaches, which empower governing […]