| Grant number: | 17/50421-3 |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| Start date: | July 01, 2018 |
| End date: | December 31, 2021 |
| Field of knowledge: | Applied Social Sciences - Administration - Administration of Specific Sectors |
| Agreement: | Belmont Forum |
| Principal Investigator: | Maria Ester Soares Dal Poz |
| Grantee: | Maria Ester Soares Dal Poz |
| Principal researcher abroad: | Sue Charlesworth |
| Institution abroad: | Coventry University , England |
| Principal researcher abroad: | Alistair Hunt |
| Institution abroad: | University of Bath , England |
| Principal researcher abroad: | Kevin Winter |
| Institution abroad: | University of Cape Town (UCT) , South Africa |
| Principal researcher abroad: | Adina Paytan |
| Institution abroad: | University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) , United States |
| Principal researcher abroad: | Joseph Nunes |
| Institution abroad: | University of Reading , England |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas (FCA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Limeira , SP, Brazil |
| City of the host institution: | Limeira |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 18/24112-6 - Urban living labs: mapping and reducing waste in the food-energy-water nexus, BP.PD |
Abstract
This project 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. We will establish four Urban Living Labs (ULL) made up of key stakeholders who together will undertake participatory research to: a) map resource flows; b) identify critical dysfunctional linear pathways; c) agree the response most appropriate to the local context (e.g. policy intervention, technology diffusion); d) model the market and non-market economic valuenewly integrated problem-solving methods appropriate to each context. We will use micro and macro-economic valuation based on generat of each intervention; and e) engage with decision-makers to close each loop. We will co-create and test ed metrics to effectively re-balance and communicate the resulting socio-environmental impacts. Knowledge brokerage by peer-to-peer exchange will enable the identification of commonalities across the ULLs and drive the application of our outputs elsewhere in the world. We include four PhDs - two will be shared supervision PhD projects (UK-South Africa) - and one post-graduate who will self-manage, under supervision, an international knowledge exchange forum. Ultimately, we will contribute policy decision support models for economically viable waste reduction and rethinking of waste as a resource in the FEW nexus perspective as well as contribute to establish entrepreneurship networks in each ULL to continue working after the formal end of the project. (AU)
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