Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Mapping and costing waste inefficiencies in the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus
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Project Description
This £1m 3-year project, WASTE FEW ULL, co-ordinated by the Belmont Forum and JPI Europe, aims to map and substantially reduce waste (resource inefficiencies) in the urban food-energy-water (FEW) nexus in city-regions across three continents: Europe, Africa and South America. To do this we will establish four Urban Living Labs (ULL) in Bristol (UK), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Campinas (Brazil) and Cape Town (South Africa) to: a) map resource flows b) identify critical inefficiencies c) agree the response most appropriate to the local context (e.g. policy intervention, technology diffusion) d) model the market and non-market economic value of each intervention e) engage with decision-makers to close each loop Each international partner is funded by their own country funding agency. UK funders are InnovateUK, ESRC and AHRC. |
Our Role
db+a co-led the bid with University of Coventry's Centre for Agro-ecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) and will be working closely with Sue Charlesworth and her team in overall programme delivery. db+a is primarily responsible for coordinating the UK Urban Living Lab and its stakeholders in Bristol with Schumacher Institute, and for leading the work package on real world impact planning across the international consortium. We will also be working closely with University of Bath and CICERO (Norway) on economic valuation, with University of Reading on the integration of design thinking, and University of Santa Cruz (US) on international integration and outreach. News
Coventry University has two fully-funded PhD positions available; the deadline for applications has been extended to March 18th: · System Dynamics Modelling of Linked Circular Economies (link) · Agent-Based Modelling of Linked Circular Economies (link) Click here for project website (hosted by UoSanta Cruz).
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Timeline3 years, starting in May 2018
UK Partners
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International Partners
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Funding Coordinators and UK Funders
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