Andy Turner's SoG Inter Cluster Meeting 2007-05-14 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- This is for information about the SoG Inter Cluster Meeting on 2007-05-14.
- Contents:
Documentation
- Intercluster proposal.doc
Preparation
- Personal intellectual agenda:
  - Considering, appreciating, using, evaluating, developing and making available geospatial data, information and technology that changes the way people and their organisations operate.
    - Research in this field is largely led by commercial business and free and open source software development.
    - Some of this work involves individuals and groups operating in applied and academic communities.
    - There are lots of software developments:
      - Some are revolutionary and changing the world, especially of interest are the virtual environments/worlds, in particular those that are depicting reality.
      - Tracking and evaluating all these developments is a challenge as is monitoring their impact on what we do and the world around us.
    - Large (global) scale modelling at high resolution.
      - Coping with large volumes of data and intesive computational operations/methods.
    - Applications are as important as data and technology and I am interested in most practical applications to do with geography especially that which involves socio-economic and bio-physical aspects.
- Two research ideas of interest mentioned at the CSAP Meeting 2007-05-09 (see Andy Turner's CSAP Meeting 2007-05-09 Web Page):
  - Coupling Socio-economic and biophysical models
  - Housing demand and availability
Notes
- Introduction
  - Joe Holden
  - The aim of this event is to start discussions and develop research proposals.
- Cluster position statements
  - UCC and C&B Agenda
    - Debbie Phillips
    - UCC agenda
      - Reconstruction of identities
      - Diaspora citizenship
      - Human rights
      - Multiculturalism
      - Inclusion and exclusion
    - UCC Agenda
      - Cities
      - Competition
      - Privitization
    - Areas for collaboration
      1. Environmental justice
        
        Differential impacts on different groups
        
        Environmental discrimination
        
        Health inequalities
        
        Service delivery
      2. Environmental Sustainability
      3. The function of different cities
      4. International migration
      5. Climate change related
        
        Disputed national statistics figures
        
        Culture and Nature intersection:
        
        What does nature mean?
        
        What is a natural disaster
        
        Wilderness
        
        Relationships between people and their environment
      6. Societal Change
        
        Demographic change
    - Already lots of conversations going on...
  - River Basins Processes and Management
    - Pippa Chapman
    - Slides
    - Collaboration ideas
      - How does human activity alter mountain/river environements.
      - Conflicts with tourism and industry.
      - Interaction technology socio-economic and bio-physical.
      - Sustainability - what does it mean?.
      - Global scale modelling.
        
        Vegetation and glacial modelling
      - Carbon modelling.
  - CSAP
    - Mark Birkin
    - Slides
  - EGC
    - Oliver Phillips
    - Slides
    - Collaboration ideas
      - How to scale up work to a global scale?
      - Fire
      - Deforestation
      - Sociology of science
        
        E.g. Is/Why is the US in denial over Global Warming?
      - Biofuels and land-use change in the UK.
      - What is a natural system?
- Group discussions
  - Every cluster split into 2 groups.
  - I am in CSAP Group 1 with Graham, Gordon and Alison
  - CSAP Group 1 discussion with C&B Group 1 (Dianna, Francis, Debbie)
    - Incidences in disease
    - Housing
    - Mixed methods, quantitative and qualitative.
    - Government Statistics and Targets
      - What do the govenment targets move towards?
      - Are they achieving their desired effects?
      - Are there problems with the statistics and data used?
    - Policy led versus policy making...
    - Taxation and pricing
      - How to do road pricing?
    - How to deal with rubbish?
      - Nuclear waste
      - Household refuse
    - How to generalise and predict peoples behaviour?
    - The study of outliers.
    - Why is this model result so strange? - (Over to the qualitative researchers to investigate...)
    - Revisit issues outlined by Martin Clarke Et Al in the Future Cities ESRC bid of 2 or 3 years ago.
    - Environmental Justice
      - Gordon Mitchell, Francis Drake
      - Air Quaility and road pricing
      - In the UK things are more top down (EU legilations demands better air quality), in the US more bottom up (people demand better air quality).
      - It is usually the poor (economic and power) that are effected negatively by changes.
      - Andrew Dobson
        
        Citizenship and Environment
    - Yorkshire and Humber Regional Strategy/Development/Action Plans
  - CSAP Group 1 discussion with UCC Group 2 (Sarah, Robert)
    - Privatisation of land/cities
- Feedback Session
  - River Basins Processes and Management
    - Water Scarcity
    - Public Perception of Landscape
    - Carbon
    - Sewer
  - CSAP
    - Future Cities
    - Environmental Justice
    - Privatisation of land/cities
    - Area based social policies
    - Water resource scarcity, patterns and impacts
    - 2 metre sea level rise
      - Population movements
      - Flood defences/adaption planning
    - Ecological demography (modelling forests at the individual tree level)
    - Process analysis and scaling up of data
- What next?
  - A shared noticeboard
  - Make all the information from today available online (at least on the internal web site, but as open as we can would be best)
  - Report back to show a refinement of ideas.
  - Next Inter Cluster Event in 6 months.
- I think a focus on UK waste would be good as we are all interested in it.
- Gordon and I are interested in:
  - "Large change in Small Pieces" or "Death by 1000 Cuts" looking at the changes in the urban environment to do with building on concretisation of gardens.
  - Personal carbon allowances and carbon credits.

Andy Turner's SoG Inter Cluster Meeting 2007-05-14 Web Page

Introduction

Documentation

Preparation

Notes

Validation and Metadata