Informing Sustainable Communities

Explores the impacts of change on global and local communities, places and spaces including digital lives and smart cities, through our research in resource economics; the role of town and city centres; environments & ageing; and grassroots and community organisations.

Related projects

  • Local Policy Innovation Partnership, led by the Faculty of Social Sciences
  • CAVEAT - Triangulation of values using different valuation methods, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2023-2026)
  • Sustainable plastic attitudes to benefit communities and their environments [SPACES] funded by NERC (led by colleagues in the Faculty of Natural Sciences) (2021-2025)
  • The economics of marine plastic pollution, funded by ESRC (2019-2022)
  • Valuing the benefits of blue/green infrastructure for flood resilience, natural capital and urban development in Vietnam, funded by NERC (2019-2021)

In the news

Sustainable Cities and Communties infographic