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FOODMETRES final conference presentation

Damian Maye is making an opening presentation at the FOODMETRES final conference ‘Towards a Territorial Approach for European Food Security’

Pioneering scheme harnesses nature to tackle flooding

The CCRI has been working with Stroud District Council to tackle floods and help wildlife on the streams of the Stroud valleys. Instead of spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on concrete and steel structures, it has been using trees…

Damian Maye to give opening speech at FOODMETRES conference

CCRI’s Dr Damian is a member of the Advisory Committee for the EU project FOODMETRES (‘Food Planning and Innovation for Sustainable Metropolitan Regions’), which aims to assess the environmental and socio-economic impacts of food chains with regard to the spatial,…

A tale of two cities

With a small grant from the Bavarian Research Alliance, Dr Keech is currently working with Otto Friedrich University (OFU) in Bamberg on a piece of comparative research examining socio-cultural and governance issues linked to food, sustainability and identity in the…

Directorial Dilemmas

As part of the CCRI’s endeavours to increase dissemination and engagement with social media, we have begun to create short films, most recently to help with promoting the forthcoming policy conference. Taking the lead on this has been Research Assistant,…