Eco-wise theme

Climate-proofing transitions and adaptations are not only economic and technical, but social, political, cultural, psychological – so how to bring all these parts together? How to mobilize all human resources for inclusive, job-creating, participative pathways? Few things are simple – cities for instance are taking new shapes and meanings – so the ‘Eco-Wise’ has now to include the new ‘peri-urban’ between and around cities, often in the line of flood, fire, storm and other climate hazards. And then we can explore the circular labyrinth of food-energy-water, and the question of resilience to what and for who? Themes include:

peri-urban & urban-regional development
climate change adaptation, risk & resilience
food-energy-water & natural capital
bio-regional & circular economy

Core partner: the Peri-cene project (www.peri-cene.net) , with University of Manchester, KTH Stockholm, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and a Policy Lab of 21 cities with ICLEI and UN-Habitat.

For background see the Deeper City – 6-2 – Eco-urban-III

Outline program:

(Peri-cene.net/ Policy Lab launch): Jan 29^th;
‘Green new deal 3.0 – how can the circular economy transition be equal & inclusive? (with EC-JRC): March 26^th 1200 GMT
Bio-regional 3.0 : how to tame the global tiger? (with Univ Granada & UC San Diego): May 27^th ;
(Peri-cene.net/ Policy Lab workshops): project sessions, also open to interested parties; (June 3, 8, 10, 15);
Food 3.0 – how to link agro-ecology, super-food & urban livelihood? (with Camley St Land Trust, London): Sept 24^th; TBC
Resilience 3.0 – how to ‘join the eco-dots’ for a next generation resilience in the ‘real world’ of flux & uncertainty: : Oct 7th
Smart-wise metro-scape 3.0: mobilizing the digital peri-urban hinterland for human synergy: Dec 3^rd

Related events –

From ‘here be dragons’ to a ‘collective spatial intelligence’ – prospects for mapping in a hyper connected world. Keynote for the Indian National Cartographic Association 2021 Conference – https://inca2020.org/conference – March 10th
International Conference on “Challenges of Disasters: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience’: JNU, New Delhi: Valedictory Address by Joe Ravetz, March 3rd – https://www.jmi.ac.in/bulletinboard/eventmodule/latest/detail/2461/26542
5th ICPEU (International Conference Planning in the Era of Uncertainty) “Rural-Urban Connectivity” – July 19: keynote on: ‘The ‘anti-city-region’ – what it is and what to do?‘ http://johannes.lecture.ub.ac.id/2021/04/the-5th-international-conference-planning-in-the-era-of-uncertainty-the-5th-icpeu-2021/
Keynote at the project conference – REVISIONING PERI-URBAN FUTURES – October 1-2 tbc

Questions, challenges, insights

Eco-wise builds on some decades of work on sustainable city-regions – not only the grey part of the map, but the settlements and livelihoods in the context of hinterland, ecosystems, resource flows local and global.