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 (pronounced like the word ‘fuel’)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.

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Contacts

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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 

Meetings

Waste Few ULL International Team meeting on the 26th and 27th September 2019 in Rotterdam

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