Globally and LOCally-sustainable food-water-energy innovation in Urban Living Labs

GLOCULL

Call

  • Nexus

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Principal Investigator

Dr. Ir. Joop de Kraker, ICIS – Maastricht University, Netherlands

Partners

Dr. Gabriela Di Giulio, Sao Paulo - School of Public Health, Brazil Dr. Daniel J. Lang, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg - Institut für Ethik und Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, Germany Dr. Andreas Muhar, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien - Department für Raum, Landschaft und Infrastruktur, Austria Mark Swilling, Stellenbosch University - Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, South Africa Erik Sehnal, Nikko Photovoltaik, Austria Dr. Barry Ness, Lund University - Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden Joacim Larsen, AB Brygghuset Finn, Sweden Mark Hartman, City of Phoenix, United States Dr. Nigel Forrest, Arizona State University - School of Sustainability, United States Kimber Lanning, Local First Arizona, United States Dr. Braden Kay, City of Tempe, United States

Funders

  • BMBF/DLR-PT (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), FFG (Austrian Research Promotion Agency), NSF (National Science Foundation), NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), SWEA (Swedish Energy Agency)

Project Objective

Challenges in food, water and energy (FWE) systems are locally and globally connected. For local actors, including cities, it is difficult to anticipate whether solutions to one issue in the FWE nexus are sustainable across food, water and energy systems, both at the local and the global scale. The GLOCULL project therefore aimed to develop an Urban Living Lab approach for innovations in the FWE nexus that are locally and globally sustainable. To support future implementation of this approach, a participatory assessment tool kit and implementation guidelines were developed through co-creation in 7 Urban Living Labs, based on an integrated assessment of local-global interactions in the FWE nexus and transdisciplinary action-research in the local Living Labs.

Call Objective

The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a joint call established in order to bring together actors to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. The ultimate goal is to increase the access and the quality of life.https://belmontforum.org/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=resources

Region

  • Africa, Europe, North America, South America

Country

  • Austria, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, United States of America (USA)

Duration

46 months

Call Date

December 9, 2016

Project Award Date

February 15, 2018