01 Sep 2016
09:00
Conference Session // Dealing with a wicked problem?: WEF NEXUS Thinking: UK and International Perspectives
This session of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016 will explore WEF nexus challenges and associated methodologies and ask if parallels can be drawn from existing wicked problem solutions. Treating Water, Energy and Food (WEF) as an integrated system opens up space to explore efficiency gains and opportunities for innovative low impact solutions.
These gains/solutions can arise from exploiting and interrogating interdependencies, identifying ancillary benefits and remediation of vulnerabilities. An integrated nexus view is not without challenges, as it possesses many of the attributes that characterise ‘Wicked Problems’. There are many Nexus challenges which include defining and characterising the dynamic WEF network (web), understanding and modelling the dynamic context of the WEF, accounting for and incorporating stakeholder views and, dealing with incomplete and/or contradictory knowledge. Presentations from a wide range of UK and international research projects will explore the NEXUS from interdisciplinary perspectives. This will include the latest NEXUS thinking from the three major EPSRC WEF sandpit projects, that collectively aim to create transformative research on the water energy food nexus, and seek revolutionary approaches to the complex challenges in this area. The session will include presentation of various WEF Nexus case studies and methodologies that address or present insights into the pertinent issues, in both a UK and international context.
Thursday 01 September 2016, Session 1 (09:00 - 10:40)
Marian Scott (University of Glasgow, UK)
Paul Kemp (University of Southampton, UK) Contact the conference organisers to request paper details: AC2016@rgs.org
Where and when
Skempton Building, Lecture Theatre 201Thursday 01 September 2016, Session 1 (09:00 - 10:40)
Convenors
Alice Bows-Larkin (The University of Manchester, UK)Marian Scott (University of Glasgow, UK)
Paul Kemp (University of Southampton, UK) Contact the conference organisers to request paper details: AC2016@rgs.org