Harriet Thomson summarises the presentations and discussions that took place during a recent event on fuel poverty and energy vulnerability in Europe. The workshop was hosted in Manchester by the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy and cities@manchester.
Category Archives: CURE member activities
From austerity traps to devolution opportunities: the role of city foresight
Joe Ravetz, Co-director of CURE discusses the ‘City Foresight Platform’, an innovative platform for a strategic transformation of cities, economies, governance and technologies.
Foresighting a Future with Cities – a roundtable forum on future-oriented research-policy
Joe Ravetz, Co-director of the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy (CURE) announces our annual event.
Climate Change and the City – Building Capacity for Urban Adaptation
Read more about a recently published open access article resulting from the EcoCities project.
Seminar on offshore wind in the UK with Stuart Dawley, Danny McKinnon and Gavin Bridge
Next Monday sees a CURE seminar organised in collaboration with the geography research seminar series at the School of Environment, Education and Development, and supported by the Global Production Networks, Labour & Trade Research Group.
Professor Gordon Walker (Lancaster University and DEMAND centre) to speak at CURE
Join us this coming Wednesday for a seminar that explores what it means to conceive of a right to energy, and how in doing so, it is necessary to consider what energy is for.
Exploring vulnerabilities in the Anthropocene: the energy-climate nexus
The EVALUATE team is organising a conference session on energy and climate vulnerability at the largest geography conference in the UK. Paper proposals need to reach us by the 11th of February!
Environmental transitions: Perspectives on everyday urban and regional transformation
Join us for this afternoon seminar in December, featuring several prominent speakers on questions of nature, community and everyday life as they relate to urban and regional change. The event will also involve a launch of the book ‘Communities in Transition’ by Saska Petrova.
CURE and cities@manchester to host double feature seminar with top urban researchers
Professor Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield) and Professor Steve Graham (Newcastle University) will give back-to-back talks featuring their recent scholarship on Tuesday next week.
Report from the ‘Beyond the Fracking Polemic’ panel discussion
Craig Thomas summarises the discussions that took place during a event organised by the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester.
