Our Projects

Global reserves of some of the world’s most important natural resources are either plummeting drastically or already going into extinction. To avert this trend, there is a need for science and society to find replacement or to reduce, reuse or recycle such resources for sustainability, i.e., use in a manner that subsequent generations can still benefit from and use such resources for meeting their own needs.

In response to this, BECEN provides audits, advisories and recommendations, and also bring together stakeholders to examine and implement bioeconomy-based and circular economy-based solutions for responding to this and other associated environmental, economic and social challenges.

Examination of the potency and effectiveness of bioeconomy and circular economy solutions, as well as their implementations are needed at all levels (namely household, firm or organization, sector or industry, as well as institutional or agency levels) hence the need for concerted stakeholder or community engagement-based approaches (i.e., science needs to interface with people). BECEN is a meeting point of ideas on the most appropriate bioeconomy and circular economy solutions for each instance or context. BECEN solutions are by default carbon negative, i.e., they sequester, store, reduce, maximize and displace carbon. Categories of solutions relevant for concerted actions under this project include forest wood products, biochar, biogas digestate, biofuels, biomass sorghum, willow biomass and other climate-oriented solutions.

Renewable natural gas (otherwise known as biogas or RNG) has significantly high potential as replacement of fossil based natural gas and liquid fuel products (gasoline, diesel etc.), for reduction of carbon emissions and can be cheaply sourced from organic waste and wasteland sources. It can be sourced from animal manure, abattoir waste, crop residues, human sewage, food waste, as well as the growing of suitable biomass feedstocks on landfills, dumpsites, abandoned minefields, oil spill sites, desert sand dunes and gully erosion sites.

With the right level of capital and infrastructural investments, it will easily replace overpriced fossil fuels, reduce energy costs and provide clean energy jobs, households and buildings.

Leading clean energy states like New York, Massachusetts and so on needs to bring industry and policy stakeholders together and start the transition debate away from fossil fuel in the light of elevated carbon and climate change scenarios, as well as the disruptive geopolitical tensions limiting the global supply of fossil energy, especially from the Middle East.

Understanding the determinants of human health, wellbeing and resilience outcomes is key to the emergence of a stronger and more resilient societies. Evaluating how previous public health interventions have impacted human health, wellbeing and resilience outcomes will also help come up with better health planning designs, systems, strategies and structures.

To avoid the breakdown of global health system experienced in the COVID 19 Era, the effectiveness of public health interventions and how they enhance human health, wellbeing and resilience outcomes needs to be continuously studied and funded. System thinking and analysis based methods that takes its origin from different fields need to be continuously explored to validate how diet, conventional and alternative medicine, crisis and emergency management structures, exercise, green and blue infrastructure, provision of and accessibility to health facilities, affordable health insurance, awareness and so on impact community and public health outcomes, wellbeing and resilience.

HEWBRES pioneers and advocates health system analysis-oriented inquiry that combines community engagement with strong quantitative methods (e.g., artificial intelligence, data science techniques, statistical methods, clinical trials and tests, health data led approach etc.) for designing of public health interventions, as well as for determination of the causes or origins of local, community or regional health, wellbeing and resilience outcomes.

One of the current drawbacks and criticism of climate, sustainability, public health and other scientific solutions and interventions, which has resulted in the scaling back of fundings, shift in budgetary spending priorities and public distrust across board is the lack of measurable impact on the most vulnerable people, landscapes, neighborhoods, groups, populations, and communities.

NEICOMRES seek to untangle this knot and offer solutions using available data clustering and statistical tools (e.g., Global Moran I and Local Moran I statistics etc.), as well as artificial intelligence (AI) and data science-based techniques (e.g., connectivity-based, or hierarchical, BIRCH, Affinity Propagation, Centroid based, Distribution based, DBSCAN, OPTICS, STING and CLIQUE clustering methods etc.)

Even though AI has been previously criticized for its bias in eligibility determination and for disenfranchisement of the most vulnerable in the society (financially and privilege-wise); conversely, it can also be used to identify, spotlight and prioritize the most vulnerable, hence bridging existential infrastructure and privilege gaps; promoting diversity, inclusion and equity; and reducing inequality.

More than 50% of the global population today live in urban spaces (Ritchie et al., 2024). Even though a vast majority of global natural resources is extracted from rural areas, the eventual destination of most of these resources is the urban area (either for production, transport, distribution, consumption or disposal). Hence, urban areas are the most impacted by global economic activities and therefore need to receive the adequate attention it deserves for better human control, administration and order.

Human civilization created urban areas for better control, order, administration and organization. Over the last century, the complexity of organization in urban spaces has progressively increased from towns to cities, to metropolis and megalopolis, all built around the complexity of economic activities, which may be commercial, administrative, residential, industrial or manufacturing or technological in nature.

However, with increasing complexity has also arisen unintended consequences and breakdown of order, hence need for even higher levels of order. To achieve this new level of order, attention needs to be paid to the most important sectors of the urban-based global economy and their associate inflows and outflows namely energy, transport, building, food, water, biodiversity, manufacturing, tourism and recreation, arts and entertainment, technology etc. URBREN 2060 will seek to contribute to help urban spaces make a sense of their previous growth and development, with a view to understand the past and current trends and patterns and devising sustainable solutions that will not prevent subsequent generations from meeting their population growth and development needs.