Frameworks and Methods for Social-Environmental-Technological Integration - CFFM WP001

This Work package aims to build the foundations for integrative research capacity in the Rio Tinto Centre for the Cu challenge and beyond as we design further grand challenges. We will achieve this by co-designing: a.) a novel framework for knitting together different discipline-based inputs and b.) identifying and developing assessment methods suited to assessing the whole system. This will generate new knowledge not just of how to collaborate (where much has been produced of a generic, process-based nature), but about the substance of key questions such as the following. How do we recognize and respond to unintended consequences of our technological solutions? How can we reconcile different specialist methods of environmental and social impact assessment? What exemplars of good practice do we find and can we invent so that work in this space contributes to wider social and environmental goals?