Project Profile: WASTE FEW ULL
Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Lab – Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Dr. Sue Charlesworth, Coventry University, United Kingdom and Daniel Black, Daniel Black & Associates, United Kingdom |
| Partners: | Maria Ester Dal-Poz, University of Campinas - UNICAMP - Business School of School of Applied Sciences and Institute of Economics, Brazil Dr. Derk Loorbach, Erasmus University Rotterdam - DRIFT, Netherlands Dr. Taoyuan Wei, CICERO Senter for klimaforskning, Norway Mark Swilling, Stellenbosch University - Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, South Africa Dr. Kevin Winter, University of Cape Town - Future Water Research Institute, South Africa James Topkin, ERWAT, South Africa Simon Roberts, Centre for Sustainable Energy, United Kingdom Dr. Alistair Hunt, University of Bath - Department of Economics, United Kingdom Dr. Richard Joseph Nunes, University of Reading - Research and Enterprise Services, United Kingdom Sabine Biesheuvel, BlueCity, Netherlands Jonny Harris, Isidima Design & Development, South Africa Fred Barker, The Schumacher Institute, United Kingdom Joy Carey, Bristol Food Network, United Kingdom Charlotte Stamper, United Kingdom, GENeco Dr. Adina Paytan, University of California Santa Cruz - IMS, United States |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Lab – Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus |
| Full Call Title: | Nexus2016 |
| Website: | https://wastefewull.weebly.com/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | The project's aim is to substantially reduce resource inefficiencies in the urban food-energy-water nexus. The aim of the WASTEFEWULL project is to develop and test internationally applicable methods of identifying inefficiencies in a city-region's food-energy water nexus. We will undertake this through an international network of industry/civic society-led Urban Living Labs (ULL) in four urban regions - UK (Bristol), Netherlands (Rotterdam), South Africa (Western Cape) and Brazil (Campinas). Partners in Norway and the USA will provide economic valuations of potential impact, and impact-led public education, outreach and dissemination. Waste occurs across food, energy and water systems; at the interface of these systems, waste increases significantly the overconsumption of our limited resources: food (e.g.energy lost in food storage), energy (e.g. used to clean water) and water (e.g. nutrients lost in sewage). Resource scarcity is not only a matter of efficiency, but of access, distribution and equality. Each urban context has different pressures and opportunities. The focus of the WASTE FEW ULL project is therefore not so much on the specific down stream challenges, but on upstream processes by which cities can identify, test and scale viable and feasible solutions that reduce the most pressing inefficiencies in each context. |
| 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. |
Where?
| Regions: | Africa, Europe, South America |
| Countries: | Brazil, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom |
When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | December 9, 2016 |
| Project Award Date: | February 15, 2018 |
