The UK aims to reduce Kyoto greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20-24 billion tonnes by 2050. In order to achieve this goal, urgent action needs to be undertaken to cope with unsustainable supply of energy and the need to reduce carbon footprint from a new perspective, based on a holistic supply chain approach.
The project is aimed at developing a balanced green supply chain approach and system capable of providing an understanding of the impact of the green initiatives from a full supply chain perspective utilising an intrinsically multi-disciplinary approach, including contributions from sustainable science, social science, supply chain, engineering, environment, economies, energy, technology and policy work.
Key issues
Research issues addressed
“We call for a better appreciation of urban green areas, not only as sites of an urban ecology, or as public space, but also as sites of social-ecological interaction where knowledge and learning about ecosystems takes place. Our contribution has been to provide conceptual tools like the scale-crossing broker to enrich academic and policy debates on how to handle cross-scale learning and adaptive ecosystem governance,” Ernstson and Barthel conclude.
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