|
About
Waste occurs across food, energy and water systems. At the interface of these systems, waste increases significantly the over-consumption of our limited resources. Resource scarcity is not only a matter of efficiency, but of access, distribution and equality. Understanding different pressures and opportunities in distinct urban contexts is important for identifying processes by which cities can identify, test and scale viable and feasible solutions that reduce the most pressing inefficiencies in each context. The aim of the WASTE FEW ULL project is to develop and test internationally applicable methods of identifying inefficiencies in a city-region’s food-energy-water nexus. We will undertake this through an international network of industry/civic society-led Urban Living Labs (ULL) in four urban regions - UK (Bristol), Netherlands (Rotterdam), South Africa (Western Cape) and Brazil (São Paulo). Partners in Norway and the USA will provide economic valuations of potential impact, and impact-led public education, outreach and dissemination. |
|
|
Contacts
|
Social media
|
|
Professor Susanne Charlesworth, Coventry University, e-mail
Julia Stew, Coventry University, e-mail Daniel Black, db+a, email Adina Paytan, University of California Santa Cruz, e-mail |
|
NEWS
Coventry University has two fully-funded PhD positions available, both of which are tightly linked to the WASTE FEW-ULL project:
· System Dynamics Modelling of Linked Circular Economies (link)
· Agent-Based Modelling of Linked Circular Economies (link)
Kick-off meeting,London, June 2018, more information here
Full meeting, Bristol, UK, October 11th & 12th 2018; more information here
SUGI hosted sessions at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference in Washington, DC in April 2019
session 1: Participatory mapping and modelling in urban resource and infrastructure governance
session 2: The Food – Water – Energy Nexus in an urban context
First Capetown ULL update report, more information here
· System Dynamics Modelling of Linked Circular Economies (link)
· Agent-Based Modelling of Linked Circular Economies (link)
Kick-off meeting,London, June 2018, more information here
Full meeting, Bristol, UK, October 11th & 12th 2018; more information here
SUGI hosted sessions at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference in Washington, DC in April 2019
session 1: Participatory mapping and modelling in urban resource and infrastructure governance
session 2: The Food – Water – Energy Nexus in an urban context
First Capetown ULL update report, more information here
