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 cope with 2, 3 or 4 degrees: Oct 14th
• Climate-sight-3.0- beyond COP26 – thinking ahead in disruption & opportunity – Dec 10th
• Peri-cene 3.0 – new pathways for eco-urban futures??  final conference of the Peri-cene project – Jan 21st 

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 –  Oct 2nd
• Keynote at the International Forum on Urban-Rural Linkages (from the UN Habitat URL program) – Oct 19th – Songyang, China & online
• Interactive session  at the international Bioregional Planning Conference – Oct 20th – Firenze Italy & online 

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.