Project
A known challenge for the Bristol city-region (and cities globally) relates to the correct valuation of precious, undervalued resources including food, energy and water. This trans-disciplinary, real world impact-focused research group is working with three key agencies in Bristol - Wessex Water/GENeco; Centre for Sustainable Energy and Bristol Food Network – and linked stakeholders to minimise linear and wasted flows of food, energy and (nutrients in) water using market and non-market micro and macro economic valuation, systems modelling and targeted impact planning to disrupt business as usual. |
Wessex Water manages Bristol’s sewage treatment (supplying water to 1.3 million people across the region) from their HQ south of Bath, their subsidiary GENeco operates a range of initiatives in waste recovery in Bristol’s river mouth, Avonmouth e.g. biomethane, domestic food waste, compost and partial nutrient recapture. Bristol Food Network C.I.C. supports, informs and connects individuals, community projects, organisations and businesses who share a vision to transform Bristol into a sustainable food city. The Centre for Sustainable Energy’s mission is to share knowledge and practical experience to empower people to change the way they think and act about energy. It does this by giving advice, managing innovative energy projects, training and supporting others to act, and undertaking research and policy analysis.
The Bristol ULL is led by Daniel Black + Associates (db+a) working alongside The Schumacher Institute with specialist research expertise provided by Universities of Coventry, Reading and Bath.
The Bristol ULL is led by Daniel Black + Associates (db+a) working alongside The Schumacher Institute with specialist research expertise provided by Universities of Coventry, Reading and Bath.
CollaboratorsDaniel Black, Daniel Black + Associates , e-mail
Richard Nunes, University of Reading, e-mail Alistair Hunt , University of Bath, e-mail Sue Charlesworth, University of Coventry, e-mail Dan Green , Wessex Water, e-mail Charlotte Stamper, GENeco, e-mail Joy Carey, Bristol Food Network, e-mail Simon Roberts , Center for Sustainable Energy, e-mail Ian Roderick, Schumacher Institute, e-mail |
Methods
Stakeholders
The team has identified key actors for the Bristol ULL for the water, energy, and food sector. By engaging on multiple occasions with main partners over the first year, the Bristol team was able to start identifying quickly key problems and user needs, to map out defined problem spaces (the actors, decision-makers, processes), and to target key stakeholders that are critically linked to the identified user need.
Based on this participatory process, the ULL has identified concurrent and interacting activities in systems mapping/design thinking, economic valuation and resource flow modelling.
News
- Bristol ULL had their final meeting on November 11th 2021! See photos here, and here. Click 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for a powerpoint presentation.
- Bristol ULL Project briefing and workshop session plan May 2021
- Joy Carey wrote a blogpost about food system reslilience for Bristol Going for Gold
- Bristol Going green
- Bristol ULL Impact Planning Update June 2019 here
- Update report March 2019 here
- Kick-off meeting for the Bristol ULL in Avonmouth in August 2018 - more information here
- Local students made a film about recycling to raise awareness in August 2017
Presentations
Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Annual Conference, Special session sponsored by the PERG (Planning and Environment Research Group): The food-energy-water nexus: boundaries, processes, and the circular economy (1, 2, 3, 4)
Project meeting about ULL progress, Jan 19, 2021
Bristol's Waste Challenge - A conversation with stakeholders, April 2020. (Notes) (Flowcharts)
Roderick, I. (2019) Bristol ULL System Mapping, Second International Conference of the Waste FEW ULL project, 26-27 September, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Bristol Urban Living Lab for the reduction of waste in the FEW Nexus, First International Conference of the Waste FEW ULL project, 12 October, Bath, UK
Project meeting about ULL progress, Jan 19, 2021
Bristol's Waste Challenge - A conversation with stakeholders, April 2020. (Notes) (Flowcharts)
Roderick, I. (2019) Bristol ULL System Mapping, Second International Conference of the Waste FEW ULL project, 26-27 September, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Bristol Urban Living Lab for the reduction of waste in the FEW Nexus, First International Conference of the Waste FEW ULL project, 12 October, Bath, UK
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Contact
For more information, please contact Jen Gil, e-mail