Explore Challenges
- The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus
- Unsustainable Fishing
- Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how to improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
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The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus
PETER VOSER
TIM BROWN
PROF KEVIN NOONE
PROFESSOR JUDITH REES (Chair)
The world's energy, water and food systems are tightly linked. How will these vital resources cope in the coming decades from a growing and more prosperous global population?
Join us to explore and discuss the challenges facing the management and future use of these key resources from a unique range of perspectives.
Hear from our internationally renowned panel and have a chance to put your own questions to them.
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Unsustainable Fishing
How can we avoid the collapse of a resource that remains an essential part of food security and vital to the communities and livelihoods of half a billion people across the planet? Join our expert panel to explore this issue and put your own questions to them.
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Keeping pace with a digital revolution
The internet is rapidly evolving to play a central role in society, transforming social, cultural, economic and political landscapes.
The benefits are clear, but are societies equipped to keep pace with the consequences of our increasing reliance on this technology?
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Adapting to an urban future
Humans are rapidly becoming an urban species.
Global population has passed 7 billion, 3.5 billion people are urbanised and over 1 billion people now live in slums.
How will urban centres keep pace with predicted continuing growth? What are the visions of tomorrow's cities?
Persistent poverty in Britain
Britain is the world’s fifth richest country, yet poverty in Britain is rising. With paid work failing to reduce poverty for many, how can Britain best tackle this growing issue?
Natural disasters: how to improve?
How can we improve our response to natural disasters and ensure lessons learnt benefit vulnerable communities worldwide in the long-term?
Importing goods, exporting drought?
The scale of global water consumption needed to produce what we use and consume has a dramatic impact around the world. From the food we eat to the clothes we wear, discover the hidden cost of Britain's consumption?
The future shape of Capitalism
Will the recent financial crisis and the downturn in the global economy change the shape of capitalism as we know it today?
London under water
What is the threat of flooding to London’s people and infrastructure? How will current defences cope with enhanced flood risk to the capital over the next 30 years?