The Centre for Urban Wellbeing at University of Birmingham is currently working on the early stages of a project with researchers at the University of Bielefeld, University of Melbourne and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, which will explore how governments and policymakers incorporate ethical concerns into their decision making processes. Some of the … Continue reading “Expertise and Ethics in Times of Crisis: where and when should ethics come into play? By Sarah Ball, Robert Lepenies, Jessica Pykett, Holger Strassheim”
Author: Jessica Pykett
Designing policy strategies for urban wellbeing – why knowing what works is not enough, by Jessica Pykett
This blog post previously appeared at the Power to Persuade blog Global anxiety about urban stressors The accelerating pace of urbanisation globally has generated new anxieties about our relationship with and experience of cities. Urban challenges such as traffic, air pollution, noise, stress, overcrowding, socio-economic inequalities, food insecurity, excessive waste, ill-health, exclusion, conflict, privatisation of … Continue reading “Designing policy strategies for urban wellbeing – why knowing what works is not enough, by Jessica Pykett”