Yan, Wanglin

Urban communities are particularly vulnerable to the future demand of food, water and energy, and this is further acerbated by the onset of climate change. A solution needs to be found for a FEW nexus. Granted by Belmont Forum's Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative, this internationally diverse project sees urban agriculture as a key facilitator of the Nexus, needing water and energy to become productive. Working directly with living labs in some of the most vulnerable communities in the partner cities, the team aims to co-design new food futures with stakeholders that leave them less vulnerable to forces disturbing the nexus. The lessons learned from these stakeholder workshops will be shared outside the team, so that lessons learned locally can be applied globally.

Recent achievement of the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought a great opportunity for GIS to be integrated with physical space as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This project studies on the platform for integration of cyber and physical world with IoT and various CPS technologies. The platform could be applied for environmental field survey, construction, education and citizen participation etc.

Japan has launched the Feed-in-Tariff since July 1 2012. However the policy does not bring much benefit to communities. This is a project supported by the Ministry of Environment, Japan for promoting the community-based Solar PV business. A common based energy business model is proposed.