People
Adina Paytan is a research professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a biogechemist and her research lies in the fields of biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography and paleooceanography. She uses the chemical and isotopic records enclosed in wide range of earth materials to study present and past biogeochemical processes including water quality and quantity and nutrient dynamics. She is also active in science education and literacy.
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Alistair Hunt leads on the economic aspects of the Bristol region case study. Specifically, this involves trying to better represent aspects of the water-energy-food nexus – such as health and biodiversity - that have impacts on human welfare but which do not have market prices. Valuation of these aspects can then be used to inform policy decisions that better reflect the needs of sustainable development pathways.
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Daniel Black is an independent research coordinator with 20 years professional experience in a wide range of knowledge domains in urban planning, development and corporate governance. He qualified originally in economics and urban design, specialising in sustainability and health impact assessment methods for large-scale urban development. Since setting up his own practice in 2012, db+a, Daniel has co-led research bids with academic partners to win six research projects (c.£12m total) from a wide range of funders including the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, InnovateUK, NERC, the Urban Land Institute, New Climate Economy, the Belmont Forum, JPI Europe, ESRC, and the AHRC. Daniel is a Visiting Research Fellow at University of Bristol (Bristol Medical School), UWE Bristol (Faculty of Environment and Technology and Health and Applied Sciences), and University of Reading (Henley Business School - Real Estate and Planning) and works closely with multiple other universities, academics and consultants, particularly at the Universities of Bath (economics), Bristol (systems/engineering, law, public health) and Coventry (agro-ecology and water).
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Érika Francisco is a chemical engineer and has experience in environmental biotechnology, microalgal biorefinery, bioproduction, and bioprocesses applied to the conversion/mitigation of industrial pollutants and production of biofuels, processes for CO2 sequestration and treatment of wastewater/effluent for the production of biodiesel. Her research has been funded by the institutions Fapergs (Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio Grande do Sul) and CNPq
(Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications). She also has experience as a technical consultant in the licensing and environmental projects sector. Currently, Érika is working as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Applied Sciences, Administration Department at Unicamp in the project "Urban Living Labs - Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus", with a focus on developing Systems Dynamics Modeling. |
Ian Roderick is the director of The Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems, an independent think tank in Bristol, UK. The institute promotes the ideas of E. F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful.
He has an MSc in Operational Research and an MSc in Responsibility & Business Practice. He started his career at the Building Research Establishment before heading up strategic forecasting for Rank Xerox. He then co-founded a successful software company and ever since this was sold, he has pursued interests in applying systems sciences to problems in environmental and social justice spheres. He was president of the UK Systems Society from 2005-2008. He is co-founder of a charity called The Converging World that is building a windfarm in India to support local welfare. |
Joy Carey is an independent Sustainable Food Systems consultant specializing in food system change and the role of cities and has worked with both the UK organic and local food sectors since 1990. She currently works with theRUAFglobal partnership on urban agriculture and food systems. Over the last four years she has contributed to international initiatives with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact to develop methodology and metrics for city region food system assessment. She is author of ‘Who Feeds Bristol? Towards a resilient food plan’ (2011) - a baseline report that has informed the Bristol Good Food Plan and highlighted the city’s positive planning powers. She is a member of Bristol Food Policy Council and a founding Director of Bristol Food Network.
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Kevin Winter is an academic in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is also a lead researcher in the Future Water Institute at UCT where his primary research focus is on surface water management, high resolution monitoring technologies, treatment of surface water drainage from informal settlements and the regeneration of urban waterways. Over the past 2 years his research activities have focused on developing the Water Hub as a Living Lab. The aim is to integrate the Food-Energy-Water nexus through collaboration, transdisciplinary research and Circular Economy thinking and design. He is an active member of the City of Cape Town’s Section 80 Water Resilience Task Team and a Community-based NGO, the Friends of the Liesbeek, that is dedicated to restoring and conserving an urban river in Cape Town.
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Marco Van De Wiel is a Reader in Fluvial Processes in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK. His main research interest is in the field of computational geomorphology, i.e. the development and application of numerical models to simulate geomorphological landscape evolution at various scales. But he also has a broader interest in the simulation of dynamic complex systems, especially those with an explicit spatial component. Marco has published extensively on computer simulation of geomorphic systems in international peer-reviewed journals.
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Nadine Heck is a project scientist in Ocean Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a human-environment geographer and her research explores marine conservation and natural resource management issues that lie at the interface of ecological, social, and institutional systems using a mix of social science and geospatial methods. Her research aims to increase our understanding of the conditions that foster effective protection and sustainable use of marine ecosystems and resources.
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Rachel Greer is a second-year PhD researcher in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, at DRIFT: the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions. Her international educational background fuses social science with quantitative methods by bridging Applied Social Psychology and environmental decision-making with Industrial Ecology. She has contributed scientific findings to the EU Horizon 2020 project ENERGISE: an innovative pan-European research initiative for greater scientific understanding of the social and cultural influences on energy consumption. Rachel has experience designing reduction plans for company emissions, energy use, water management, and waste, which strategies and practices she intends to incorporate in her current focus at DRIFT: Waste FEW ULL. Her research aims to achieve insights into potential pathways towards the transition to a circular economy, particularly by targeting and reducing resource inefficiencies at the FEW nexus.
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Richard Nunes is a Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at the Department of Real Estate and Planning, University of Reading. His interests relate to design, planning, and governance, especially where it involves the integration of urban ecosystem services into development planning processes and urban policy decision-making tools. He examines human-environment interactions, whether mediated by citizen actions or institutions, and its effects on the interplay of knowledge and policy development as well as strategic planning processes and outcomes. Richard is mainly concerned with how and why environmental attitudes, risk perceptions and associated ecological behaviour vary across distinct social and stakeholder groups, different biophysical settings, and diverse places.
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Simon Roberts is providing expertise on the energy aspects of the Bristol region case study. He is Chief Executive of the national charity, the Centre for Sustainable Energy. Since 1985 he has been helping people, organisations and policy-makers develop practical solutions to the threat of climate change and the misery of cold homes. He is a specialist advisor to UK Government, energy regulator Ofgem, Western Power Distribution, and several academic research programmes. He also chairs the board of Thrive Renewables and is a member of Bristol’s Environmental Sustainability Board. He was awarded an OBE for his work in 2011.
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Sue Charlesworth is Professor of Urban Physical Geography in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, UK. She is the author of many peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters on urban pollution and Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), and has co-edited books on aquatic sedimentology, water resources, sustainable engineering and SuDS. She has given conference presentations worldwide and is particularly interested in the application of SuDS in challenging environments such as refugee camps and informal settlements in Brazil, South Africa and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
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Susan Pit is a Junior Researcher working collaboratively at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the US Geological Survey. Doing lab work in the field of isotope geochemistry, the projects she currently works on focus on measuring radiogenic and stable Strontium isotopes in marine barite and how this records past carbonate burial in marine sediments, nutrient cycling in the bay of Alaska as recorded in cold water corals, and the formation of authigenic carbonates in marine methane seep systems. She maintains the Waste FEW ULL website.
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Taoyuan Wei is Senior Researcher at CICERO and has expertise to provide interdisciplinary solutions for sustainable questions related to energy, food, and water nexus. With solid background of economic theory, statistical approaches, integrated assessment modelling and analysis, Dr. Wei has conductedinterdisciplinary studies on economic analysis on agriculture, forest, energy, solar radiation management, and impacts and adaptation to climate change in recent years. From previous interdisciplinary studies, Dr. Wei has accumulated the necessary knowledge on economic valuation and ability to cooperate with researchers from other disciplines.
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Timo von Wirth is currently Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Originally trained in Economics and Geography at the University of Technology (RWTH) Aachen, Germany, he completed his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich focusing on well-being and innovation in transforming cities. His focus areas of research and teaching are: Co-creation, participatory design and innovation diffusion in environmental governance; local identity and the role of place in global, dynamic networks, as well as trust and well-being in long-term change processes.
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Ulrich Schmutz is an associate professor for organic horticulture and ecological economics at Coventry University. He has 30-years experience leading academic research (e.g. H2020 projects) but also in policy and business working within practical farms and food enterprises of any size and complexity. His research interests are in organic horticulture, urban agroecology, ecological economics and social and environmental issues of food water and energy governance. Ulrich has worked as professor for organic agriculture at the University of Bozen/Bolzano in Italy and before researching and teaching in tropical and subtropical horticulture at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany with projects in Israel and the Philippines. Other professional work is a management consultant, farm inspector and business consultant during the transition in Eastern Germany and Europe. Ulrich holds an agricultural engineering/economics degree and BSc in Philosophy from Bonn and TU-Munich Universities, Germany.
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