Together with Future Climate, we recently received funding from the EAGA Charitable Trust for a new project titled Housing in Multiple Occupancy: Energy Issues and…
Beyond the ‘sustainable city-region’ – prospects for urban intelligence
Joe Ravetz reviews experience from ‘CURE-1’ (Centre for Urban & Regional Ecology), and the prospects for ‘CURE-2’ – Centre for Urban Resilience & Energy. The text is based on an editorial for the Special Issue on ‘Urban Ecology and Resilience’, Town and Country Planning, October 2013.
CURE launch lecture
We are delighted to announce our official launch lecture. It will be delivered by Professor Harriet Bulkeley, and is titled Just Energy…
France: new approaches towards tackling urban fuel poverty
In our latest guest post, Ute Dubois (ISG International Business School, Paris) discusses the relevance of the rural-urban divide for…
Energy transitions and vulnerability – interactions with German audiences
Earlier this month I spoke at three different events in Germany, focusing on various aspects of the relationship between energy…
The energy penalty
Our latest guest post, by Professor Cosmo Graham at Leicester University, outlines the fascinating findings of recent research into the relationship between disability and fuel poverty – a topic that has received little scientific and policy attention to date.
A new wave of interest in energy vulnerability issues within European research and policy agendas
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend the kick-off meeting of the European Energy Research Alliance’s Joint Programme on…
Rapidly growing informal settlements could be the key to sustainable urban energy system transformation
In our latest guest post, Mukesh Gupta discusses the relevance of an often overlooked aspect of global urbanisation processes –…
Another CURE-led call for papers for 2014 AAG: Energy and the socioecological production of space
Visitors to this blog may be interested in this call for papers for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American…
New perspectives on urban energy governance
Last week I attended a fascinating two-day workshop organized by the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires and Sociétés (LATTS) in Paris. The…