Covid-19 has caused widespread disruption to national and international travel patterns. As restrictions begin to ease, the question arises whether mobility will return in the same form as before. At the same time, national and international travel represents a significant contribution to European carbon emissions and requires a large behavioural change in travel habits. Promoting…
On the 15th of May 2020, CRESTING ESR (Early Stage Researcher) Martin Calisto Friant presented his latest research at the Second Utrecht Degrowth Symposium: From Circular Economy to Circular Society. Martin co-organized the online event with other members of Ontgroei (the Dutch Degrowth Platform) and obtained funding from Utrecht University’s Circular Economy and Society Hub. …
CRESTING ESR (Early Stage Researcher) Martin Calisto Friant, member of the Dutch degrowth network (Ontgroie), presented his views and latest research in an online panel discussion entitled “Towards a Degrowth Society” and hosted by Extinction Rebellion Netherlands. The panel brought together four academics from Ontgroie with activists from Extinction Rebellion to discuss the meaning and…
Invitation to the second Utrecht Degrowth symposium: From circular economy to circular society (15 May 2020) The second Utrecht Degrowth symposium: From circular economy to circular society will be held on Friday 15 May 2020. In response to the current measures in place to contain the spread of COVID19, this symposium will be held online.…
The fourth CRESTING Workshop, in a series of six, was hosted by the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), France from the 2nd to the 8th of February 2020. It was organised by Supervisors Sabrina Dermine-Brullot and Tatiana Reyes and Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) Estephania Delgadillo and Santiago Perez. This workshop was the second workshop…
Circular economy: sustainability perspectives This is a call for papers for the circular economy track at the 2020 International Sustainable Development Research Society conference, which is in Budapest 15-17 July 2020. http://www.isdrsconference.org/ The abstract deadline is 15 December 2019. Track 7 c Goals and objectives: Circular economy research has taken off exponentially in the…
Last week Cresting researcher, Malgorzata Lekan based at the University of Hull, attended the 3rd International Conference on the ‘Role of social solidarity enterprises in the circular economy’ organised by RREUSE, AERESS and Traperos de Emaús Navarra in Berriozar (Pamplona), Spain. The highlights included in-depth discussions on the re-use of textiles and waste electronics as…
Along with big names of the sustainability world such as Kate Raworth, author of “Doughnut Economics”, Paul Hawken, environmentalist and author of the New York Times Bestseller “Blessed Unrest”, and Julian Agyeman, originator of the concept of ‘just sustainabilities’, Cresting Researchers Heather Rogers, Santiago Perez and Aodhan Newsholme delivered a workshop ‘bridging the gap between…
The 3rd workshop of the MCSA-ITN EU funded project titled “Circular Economy: sustainability implications and guiding progress (CRESTING)” was held between 22nd – 27th of September in Lisbon, organised and hosted by Center for Environmental and sustainability research (CENSE) and NOVA School of Science and Technology. It began with each of the 15 Early Stage…
During the last week of August, the CRESTING ESRs (Early Stage Researchers) Anna & Erik from Work Package 5 attended the 8th International Summer School on Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development in Berlin. This summer school was organised by the Forum on Sustainable Life Cycle Innovation (FSLCI) and supported by the ESCP Europe…
