Prof. Joe Ravetz is Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Resilience & Energy at the Manchester Urban Institute, University of Manchester, where he specializes in strategic thinking for sustainable cities and regions. He serves on the editorial boards of Foresight Journal, International Journal of Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Mediterranean Construction; The Greater Manchester Policy Exchange Coordinator; National or City Governments Advisor in Mauritius, Naples (Italy) and Vellore (India); and is a Principal at the non-profit SAMI Strategic Management Consultancy. With a background as an architect, planner and development manager, he is also a creative graphic facilitator and foresight trainer. His main publications are ‘City-Region 2020: integrated planning for a sustainable environment’: ‘Environment and City’: and the forthcoming ‘Urban 3.0: creative synergy and shared intelligence for the One Planet century’ (Routledge).
He has research programmes in CURE. That are about spatial development, economic development, resource modelling, environmental policy, energy / climate change, land / landscape studies, policy studies, etc. With the main agenda is about inter-connection.
Email : joe.ravetz@manchester.ac.uk