Welcome to the SUE-KM Project

This is a collaborative project by a consortium of researchers and practitioners as well as generators, suppliers and users of sustainability knowledge. The consortium recognizes that research on urban sustainability will only be worthwhile if knowledge is applied in practice. We aim to explore the scope to improve the mapping of sustainability knowledge so that stakeholders can make better use of it.

This is an on going research project funded by Engineering Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) for one year scoping study. The scoping study aims to lead for further four years of study.

The scoping study aims to undertake a feasibility study on improving the creation, transfer within and between organisations, and the application of knowledge on specific sustainable environment issues. The study will track and analyse how different users with differing perspectives and differing applications contexts access, map, and use knowledge on GLASS RECYCLING. The project will examine the feasibility of developing methods to systematically discriminate knowledge according to user needs profiles whilst preserving the resilience and comprehensiveness required for users to confidently map knowledge for complex real world sustainability issues.