Articles tagged with 'sustainable-consumption-institute' | University of Manchester

The report has been published through the Manchester Climate Change Agency as part of the evidence base for the inclusion of food systems in Manchester’s sustainability policymaking.The Manchester Climate Change Agency and Partnership are responsible...

The researchers have identified that significant challenges to customers, communities and the environment from frequent flood events remain, which lead to sustained droughts and negatively impact water quality.Furthermore, housing development policie...

Entitled Gathering Downstream, the exhibition launches a programme of activity, called Unintended Consequences that will encourage visitors to consider what everyone can do to create a more sustainable future. The programme will launch with a special...

After many Covid 19-related delays Catherine Walker finally embarked on a three month research visit down under at SGEAS at University of Melbourne. The members of the Young People at a Crossroads team met in person for the first time this month, as ...

Dr Annika Lonkila works at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and researches the politics of sustainable food system transitions from different perspectives. She will be joining us from 2 May until 13 May and is working with Jo Mylan.She studie...

Environmental Politics’ new book "Trajectories in Environmental Politics" is out now.This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects...

The AMBS Original Thinking Lecture will be hosted by Michael Hodson, Professor of Cities, Innovation and Society at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), at the Innovation, Management and Policy (IMP) division, Alliance Manchester Business Sch...

Due to COVID-19 Mat Paterson was finally awarded the ESS 2020 Distinguished Scholar Award at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in Nashville in March 2022.This award recognizes outstanding scholars whose long history of excellent...

The blog post investigates if we should be spending more time talking about methods. Human Geographers are playing a key role in developing creative, collaborative methodologies that enable researchers to attend to a range of social, political, and e...

The report fills a knowledge gap by examining the points of interaction between climate change impacts and the amount, distribution, and conditions of unpaid care work. We focus on care workers rather than those who are cared for, while stressing the...

SCI Researcher Torik Holmes, Carla de Laurentis (Cardiff Metropolitan University) and Rebecca Windemer (University of the West of England) are organising a workshop on '(Re)making infrastructures in response to sustainability and climate emergencies:...

Do you currently live in Greater Manchester?Have you moved to the UK from Pakistan or Somalia in the last ten years?If yes, then researchers from the Sustainable Consumption Institute want to hear your thoughts.The TIES project is exploring how recen...

Greater Manchester has resolved to become carbon-neutral by 2038. In its ‘5 Year Environment Plan’ it also calls for:All citizens to have access to healthy and locally produced foodThe reduction of unnecessary food wasteSupporting local food growing ...

In November 2021, SCI PhD student Danial Naqvi spoke on a panel about Systems Thinking in Transport. The event was jointly run by The Paddy Ashdown Forum and The Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Based on his contributions to the panel he recently publis...

Watch a video recording of the discussion between Prof Mat Paterson, Dr Sherilyn MacGregor and Prof Rebecca Willis (Lancaster University):Mat Paterson: In Search of Climate Politics - Book launch eventAfter a brief introduction from Mat a lively disc...

The researchers will reflect on legacies of Manchester’s intimate connection with cotton & ecological change by asking four main questions:1.      How can research into hidden histories & archives of cotton, across Manchester, reveal trajectories of ...

The Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES) project team held their first Research Advisory Group (RAG) meeting on Wednesday 12th January.The RAG consists of eight members from local and national organisations, including Faith for Clima...

Professor Paterson follows in the footsteps of Prof Frank Boons, who has led the SCI for two years and has returned to the Netherlands to start his new role as Head of the Maastricht Sustainability Institute at the University of Maastricht.Professor ...

COVID-19 has had unprecedented impacts across the international community, with complex and far-reaching consequences. Measures to prevent transmission have led to substantial changes to everyday life, with lock-downs, stay-at-home orders and guidanc...

Come join us on Tuesday 8th February 2022 from 15:30 – 17:30 to discuss the new book by Matthew Paterson, Professor of International Politics and interim director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute. You can sign up here.The book asks an oddly n...

When COVID-19 struck, it caused unprecedented disruption to urban transport systems. Stay-at-home and social distancing orders had dramatic impacts on urban mobility. Cities around the world ground to a halt, and many saw a sudden and prolonged empty...

Drawing on a range of examples from around the world, the report examines how digital platforms have responded to the shock to urban mobility created by the COVID-19 pandemic.The report analyses six different kinds of response and how these have cont...

It is widely accepted that overcoming the social-ecological crises we face requires major changes to the food system. However, opinions diverge on the question whether those ‘great efforts’ towards sustainability require systemic changes or merely sy...

The interactive workshop led by Filippo explored the role of urban gardening in helping us to build safe, resilient and sustainable cities, and how Manchester Urban Diggers CIC and other urban growers are driving environmental and social change acros...

Urban energy transitions have increasingly formed a central topic of research over the past two decades. This is, in part, because ‘modern urbanised societies are massively dependent on energy’ - cities are understood to account for close to ‘75% of ...

On Monday 18 October the 4th Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Green Summit took place at The Lowry in Salford.The Summit, themed around communities and ‘Taking people on the journey’, invited talks and presentations from individuals, the ...

On Monday 27th September, 2021, the Leverhulme Trust funded Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES) project hosted their first online webinar “How Muslims in Britain engage with, and understand, environmental sustainability” in collabor...

A new report raises concerns about the proliferation of Airbnb and other short-term letting platforms (STLs) in the city and its effects on local residents. The report (full version here), written by academics, journalists and members of Greater Manc...

Circular Economy frameworks have become central to debates and interventions that aim to reduce global resource use and environmental despoilment. As pathways to both systemic and micro-scale transformations, there remain many challenges to making Ci...

A report by Usman Aziz and Jo Mylan titled ‘Incorporating Food into Manchester’s Climate Change Response: Part 1: Why Manchester Needs a Sustainable Food Mission to Support a Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19’ has been published, which will form ...