Transdisciplinary workshop on the impacts of urbanization on the food-energy-water nexus
Venue
The Belmont Forum, START, Future Earth, and regional partners seek applications to participate in a skill-building opportunity on conducting transdisciplinary (TD) research. The workshops will focus on advancing principles of co-design and co-production in the natural, social, and engineering sciences that address complex sustainability challenges associated with the Belmont Challenge.
These workshops seek to advance skill development in TD research, as well as increasing aptitude for developing proposals with strong TD elements, which is a cornerstone of all the Belmont Forum’s multi-year Collaborative Research Action (CRA), including the recently launched call on urbanization and the food-energy-water nexus (http://www.sugi-nexus.org/)[1]. Learning activities within each workshop will be organized around a regionally relevant case study on the food-energy-water nexus.
The workshops will be three-day events with approximately 30 participants per workshop. We welcome applicants from researcher, policy, private sector, and practitioner communities. The participants will be apportioned as approximately 2/3 from the research community and 1/3 from practitioner, private sector, and policy communities.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand TD research in the context of urbanization and the food-energy-water nexus
- Identify opportunities and barriers related to TD research and application
- Explore how to broaden impacts by adopting TD process design
- Acquire usable skills and competences in TD research on:
- Building a TD team
- Collaborative problem framing
- TD settings and roles of researchers and practitioners
- Integrative approaches and methods
- Evaluating TD process and scientific and societal impacts