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In the context of the EU Green Week, Scotland Europa has organized a public discussion on the importance of multidisciplinary work for understanding and improving water management. Kerry Waylen from the James Hutton Institute (Scotland) will present the experiences of MAGIC in exploring the narratives underpinning European policies and their...

How can academic research on issues like climate change, energy transition, biodiversity and air pollution be effectively linked to municipal management? This was the focus of the public date organized by Barcelona En Comú on Tuesday 07 May 2019 and that took place at the Universitat de Barcelona.  Mario Giampietro and Raúl Velasco Fernández...

This quarter our scientists tackle the issue of transportation, an important issue for the study of the nexus. It is both the target of innovative solutions that may help solve the challenges of energy and climate, and the source of challenges and trade-offs in sustainability governance. An example of innovative solutions are electric vehicles that...

MAGIC's UNINA team (Carmela Iorio and Roberta Siciliano) organized and chaired a double special session on “complexity, data science and statistics through visualization and classification” at the European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA 2019), Bayreuth (Germany), 18-20 March 2019.  In line with MAGIC's quest to find new ways to tackle...

On 15 March 2019, MAGIC's researchers Michiele Staiano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) and Rafael Nebot Medina (Technological Institute of the Canary Islands, Spain) presented their progress in designing software for the implementation of Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) at the...

On 27 November 2018, over 50 policy makers and scientists gathered at the Resource Nexus Policy & Cluster Workshop at EASME in Brussels. The Workshop was co-organized by the Executive Agency for SMEs (EASME) and the Horizon2020 projects MAGIC, DAFNE and SIM4NEXUS, and brought together EU-funded projects related to the resource nexus, as...

The article 'Ecosystem services as the products of land system dynamics: lessons from a longitudinal study of coupled human–environment systems', by Richard Aspinall and Michele Staiano (UNINA), was released today in the journal Landscape Ecology.  In this paper, the authors address the understanding of whole-system and landscape-based...

On 17 October 2018, Barbara Willaarts (IIASA), Cristina Madrid (UAB-Yale), Gloria Salmoral (Cranfield University) and Violeta Cabello (UAB) organized a double session at the Water Science for Impact Conference in Wageningen, entitled “Stop the Buzzword: closing persistent gaps in the implementation of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus”. The first...

Innovation plays an important role in policy-making. Sometimes, however, innovation cannot meet the needs of all sectors of the water-energy-food nexus at the same time, causing various tradeoffs. In such situations then, how can policymakers reconcile diverging policy goals? And how can decision-makers analyse and account for the possible adverse...

On Tuesday 18 September, MAGIC Coordinator Mario Giampietro participates in the public debate on Squaring the Energy Circle in the European Parliament. The event is part of the Post-Growth 2018 Conference, a multi-stakeholder gathering organized by ten Members of the European Parliament representing six political groups: Philippe Lamberts,...