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

In this blog Prof Best and Prof Paterson discuss themes surrounding climate governance and central banking, which emerged during a recent workshop involving leading scholars hosted by the Politics Department and SCI in February at the University of M...

Young People at a Crossroads (YPAC) explored how migrant-background young people and their families are learning and talking about climate change in Manchester and Melbourne. We are often told that ‘humanity is at a crossroads’ in relation to climate...

PhD student Usman Aziz, Elvira Uyarra (MIOIR) and Jo Mylan have written an article on how green city regions can deliver policy to meet net zero for Policy@Manchester. You can read the article here.The UK is making progress to achieve net zero, with ...

Dale Southerton and Alan Warde have just published an essay on sustainable consumption in a collection of papers in honour of Hal Wilhite. Hal was a social anthropologist working on issues of consumption and sustainability with a special interest in ...

SCI Honorary Researcher Tally Katz-Gerro co-published the paper ‘Between perceptions and practices: The religious and cultural aspects of food wastage in households’ in Appetite. You can access the paper for free here.AbstractUnderstanding the determ...

On Tuesday, 31st January, Celeste Hicks’ launch of her book ‘Expansion Rebellion: Using the law to fight a runway and save the planet’ is taking place from 3pm in 10.007 and on Zoom.Can the UK expand Heathrow airport, bringing in 700 extra planes a d...

A beautifully-illustrated new resource has been launched which seeks to help teachers to address climate change in their classrooms using real-world stories in a creative, engaging and inclusive manner....

The study was completed on behalf of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and was funded by Research England. The objective was to contribute to an evidence base for an update of the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy (GM LIS).T...

SCI Lecturer Jeremy Brice is the co-author on the open access paper ‘When you wish upon a (GWP) star: Environmental governance and the reflexive performativity of global warming metrics’ in Social Studies of Science. You can find it online here.Abstr...

The conference kicked off with the first keynote from high school English teacher and activist Matt Carmichael on "Climate change: What's at stake in high schools? And what can we do?".Catherine then spoke about her ESRC-funded Young People at a Cros...

Water-related risks undermine human development and can contribute to migration and displacement, food insecurity, political instability, and conflict. During the online seminar in November 2022 SCI PhD student Chantal V. Bright, her supervisors Dr L...

In this new blogpost the authors ask ‘Should we abandon agriculture altogether?’, which may sound strange at first. This likely comes from an understanding of agriculture as equivalent to the practice of producing food, and to suggest producing no mo...

We were honoured to welcome renegade economist Professor Kate Raworth, founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), on Tuesday, 6th December. Kate gave a thought-provoking, entertaining and hopeful lecture about how to live within the doughnu...

The Educators’ guide presents a brief ‘setting the scene’ review of research and policy developments to explain how a whole school approach to climate change is both necessary and possible. It has been published alongside the Young People at a Crossr...

Many people working in local or community food projects already know that they need to review how they operate in order to ensure they are doing as much as possible to reduce future negative impacts on the climate. This Climate Briefing, prepared by ...

‘Capturing the Carbon Opportunity’ draws on expert research from The University of Manchester academics on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and combines this insight with findings from interviews with businesses and industry leaders throughout the CC...

SCI Lecturer Jeremy Brice was interviewed for the podcast FEED about his new report: Investment, Power and Protein in sub-Saharan Africa.The place of protein in sub-Saharan Africa’s food system is changing rapidly, raising complex international devel...

SCI Researcher Catherine Walker published a new blog post on the SCI Blog entitled ‘Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why we need inclusive climate change education’. The blog provides an introduction and accompanying informat...

The purpose of the event held at the Whitworth Art Gallery on 8th November was to have a community-facing, friendly and generative discussion about how to make the Curry Mile a place that serves people and the environment better.The ideas shaping the...

The paper is part of a forthcoming special section of Area on working with the spoken word in human geography and can be accessed online via open access.Jeremy takes a closer look at ‘expert’ or ‘elite’ interviews, which are often taken to be occasio...

Ensuring adequate access to clean water remains a major challenge throughout the world, particularly in off-grid and low-income neighbourhoods in the Global South. Digital water infrastructure such as water ATMs (automated standpipes) has been a comm...

Maria brings experience of working with policy makers, particularly across Government Departments. Her research on low-carbon energy and circular economy involves interdisciplinary approaches to complex policy problems, and aims to provide a conduit ...

The report argues that in order to understand the changing place of protein in sub-Saharan African diets and food systems, it is important to investigate what motivates different financial actors to invest in new food products, markets and value chai...

The team of the Methods for Change research project is holding two sessions at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences open to anyone with an interest in creative, participatory, spatial, and mixed methods in social science research.The events are open ...

We are delighted to announce that we are welcoming bestselling author and renegade economist Professor Kate Raworth for the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture 2022 on 6th December from 3pm!This event is held in collaboration with the Su...

Drawing on her experiences at the conference as well as her own research Chantal encourages an approach that uses water resources as a tool of engagement for the broader goal of peace and stability and advocates women’s leadership for better water ma...

Mangoes, Meat & Motors: Confronting the Climate on Manchester's Curry Mile is an event to explore how life/work/play on the Curry mile helps and/or hurts the environment. Although the Curry Mile is an important place for local cultures and economies,...

Catherine Walker has published her creative project book as part of the Young People at a Crossroads project. Entitled Young People at a Crossroads: Stories of climate education, action and adaptation from around the world, the book collates the voic...

The aim of the workshop was to bring together academics from diverse backgrounds to collaborate and focus on different infrastructures in the UK and beyond. By discussing how existing infrastructures shape our responses to the climate crisis and in w...

The paper develops an approach to the emergence of multiple economies of water in India’s capital Delhi, using a neo-Polanyian approach of instituted economic process. Prof Harvey argues that water is an ‘uncooperative public good’ and analyses the s...