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Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability (2014)
Report
Eames, M., De Laurentis, C., Hunt, M., Lannon, S. C., & Dixon, T. (2014). Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability. EPSRC

What would a sustainable future look like for Cardiff and South East Wales? This report describes three distinctive long term (2050) city regional futures: i) Connected Cardiff; ii) Compact Cardiff–Wilderness Valleys; and iii) Orchard Cardiff Ci... Read More about Cardiff 2050: City regional scenarios for urban sustainability.

Retrofit 2050: Critical challenges for urban transitions (2014)
Report
Eames, M., Dixon, T., Lannon, S. C., Hunt, M., De Laurentis, C., Marvin, S., …Georgiadou, M. C. (2014). Retrofit 2050: Critical challenges for urban transitions. EPSRC

Scaling up retrofit presents a number of critical challenges for the transition to urban sustainability. Drawing together insights from the EPSRC Retrofit 2050 project this briefing sets out key success factors that need to be in place to deliver sus... Read More about Retrofit 2050: Critical challenges for urban transitions.

Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance (2014)
Book Chapter
Carla, D. L., & Cooke, P. (2014). Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance. In M. K. Goodman, & C. Sage (Eds.), Knowing Brand Wales (205--225). Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582702-10

As the first industrial nation, the UK was one of the earliest countries to experience the industrialisation of agriculture, a process that led to an increase in productivity, with more and more food produced by fewer and fewer people. As a result of... Read More about Knowing Brand Wales: agro-food transitions in firms, innovation and governance.

Sustainable regeneration: A guiding vision towards low-carbon transition? (2014)
Journal Article
Hunt, M., & De Laurentis, C. (2015). Sustainable regeneration: A guiding vision towards low-carbon transition?. Local Environment, 20(9), 1081-1102. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2014.894964

While the concept of sustainable development brings together concepts of economic, environmental and social sustainability, much has been said regarding inherent tensions between them. Conflicts between economic and environmental objectives, in parti... Read More about Sustainable regeneration: A guiding vision towards low-carbon transition?.