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Category: Field research updates

Update on EVALUATE’s summer fieldwork

A new update and reflections on EVALUATE’s latest qualitative fieldwork.

EVALUATE fieldwork update

Neil Simcock provides an update and reflections on EVALUATE’s qualitative fieldwork.

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.

austerity, climate change, Energy, Manchester, UK

Quality of whose life? Prosperity by another name?

In his third post on this blog, Joe Ravetz, Co-director of CURE, gives a critical overview of prosperity indexes. He formulates and develops the idea of synergistic prosperity.

complexity, sustainability, synergistic, urban

Research on energy poverty in Greece – update

The EVENT project commenced its programme of activities during July and August. These were undertaken amidst an atmosphere of rising … More

alternative economy, community, cooling, electricity, Energy poverty, fuelwood, Greece, heating, household practices, Thessaloniki

Research in Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania

By Stefan Bouzarovski At the beginning of April I visited Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo as part of an initial research … More

albania, Energy, environment, kosovo, macedonia, urban

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