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Professor Richard Fenner was awarded the Leo Jansen Best Paper award at this year’s Engineering Education for Sustainable Development conference.  Leo Jansen (1934 – 2012) was a chemical engineer, corporate researcher and planner, politician and professor.Professor Fenner’s paper, ‘Engineers as advocates for Sustainable Development: countering misi…

Post-Doctoral Position to Investigate System Dynamic Modelling of the Water-Land-Energy NexusWe are  currently seeking applications for a 3 year post-doctoral position to investigate system dynamic modelling of the water-land-energy nexus in a number of European locations. Details of the position can be found at: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/2953…

Dick Fenner and Tom Cernev address this question in a new paper recently published in Futures in March 2021 (which can be accessed at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102726)They focus specifically on four “foundational” SDGs: SDG 1 No Poverty; SDG 3: Good Health and Wellbeing; SDG 14: Life Below Water; and SDG 15 Life on Land as well as the…

ESD Lecturer Dr Kristen MacAskill has been featured by Turner and Townsend as part of their 'Perspectives' series, speaking about the disruption of the pandemic and the challenge of building sustainability and resilience into the recovery.The article highlights how the pandemic has forced people to think differently, creating a window of opportunit…

Read Dick Fenner's blog entry on the current state of sustainability in civil engineering at the Institution of Civil Engineer's website, where Dick explores explores progress towards sustainability in the UK construction sector.The blog is available at: https://www.icebookshop.com/What-s-new/Is-sustainability-in-civil-engineering-being-achie.aspx

Dick Fenner and Andre Serrenho have secured funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme as part of a large consortium including colleagues in Land Economy.The project will be led and co-ordinated by Dr Leon Kapetas, a former Research  Associate in the Centre for Sustainable Development who worked with Dick on Urban Flood Resilience. Le…

Dick Fenner and Malcolm Morgan have been awarded the Robert Alfred Carr Prize for their paper entitled: Spatial evaluation of the multiple benefits of sustainable drainage systems.The prize is awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers for the best paper published each year in the Journal of Water Management. The research it describes evolved fr…

Dick Fenner and Charles Ainger have recently updated their 2006 paper (co-authored with Peter Guthrie and Heather Cruickshank) "Widening engineering horizons: addressing the complexity of sustainable development" to examine how much progress towards sustainability the civil engineering profession has made in each of the eight key areas defined in t…

Dick Fenner has compiled and edited a special themed edition of the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions A Journal on urban flood resilience, published in February 2020.Details can be found at doi:  10.1098/rsta/375/2168. The edition brings together the work of the UKs  urban flood resilience consortium  with contributions describing similar …

Professor Dick Fenner and his co-authors Dr Lan Hoag (IBM) and Maggie Skandarian (Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, USA) have been highly commended in the Outstanding Paper Award by the Journal of Flood Risk Management. The paper is "A conceptual approach for evaluating the multiple benefits of urban flood management practices", published …

From the 28th – 31st May, FIBE doctoral researcher Francesca O'Hanlon attended the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering for Development symposium. The theme of the symposium was ‘WASHing Away Inequalities’.The event was held in Mexico City, and brought together early-stage academics and practitioners from the WASH sector to discu…

Dr Dai Morgan supported the 3rd ISA Lab workshop, hosted by Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaThe ISA Lab programme is designed to bring together students and teachers of sustainable development to share knowledge and perspectives, whilst work on real challenges in a intensive residential workshop environment. The aim of the workshop, led by Javie…

Dr Tim Forman has been sharing insights on sustainability in the built environment in practitioner forums.In March 2019, Tim spoke at FutureBuild, which is a built environment exhibition and conference attended this year by nearly 30,000 people. Tim's talk, titled 'Existing buildings, future challenges', examined the implications of planetary limit…

New lectureships in Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development announcedWe are delighted to announce that the Department of Engineering is advertising for two University Lectureship positions in the area of Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development.These posts will be closely associated with the MPhil in Engineering for Sustain…

Jeremy Purseglove's new book, Working with Nature, has now been publishedJeremy Pursglove has been a mainstay of the ESD programme since its inception, annually leading the Autumn Field Trip to Twyford Down etc.You may be interested to know that his new book, Working with Nature, has now been published. See details at:https://profilebooks.com/worki…