Since 2000 the Centre for Urban & Regional Ecology has been working on ‘sustainable city-regions’ – the challenge of steering our behaviour, settlements and landscapes towards more sustainable futures. Read more about us.
If you are interested in finding out more about CURE, any of the projects listed on this site, or finding out more about Postgraduate research in the Centre, please contact us directly
CURE is now coming up to its 10th anniversary. We are reviewing what has been achieved, what are the prospects and goals, and what kind of strategy we should take forward.
Clearly the priority of environmental issues has increased in the last decade: but so have the scale of the risks and the challenges.
The concept of integrated city-regional policy and governance has continued to develop: there are more sophisticated tools and evidence bases to help in this, but also more realism about what is possible.
Funded by research councils, the EU, government and agencies, our research covers a wide range of themes of academic and policy relevance. Read more about our research agenda, themes and approaches.
The Centre has a multidisciplinary staff of academics and researchers.
The director is Dr Iain White.
CURE has a thriving postgraduate research community, with 26 PhD students. We welcome enquiries from prospective research students.
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