Sustainability Spotlight, Feb 2022 - Glasgow Goes GALLANT
is a major new research programme led by the Centre's Director, Prof Jaime L. Toney, with co-leadership from Prof Petra Meier of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing (and also an Associate Director of the Centre) and Prof Marian Scott OBE of the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
This five-year, £10.2 million programme, funded as part of UKRI NERC Changing the Environment, started on 31st January 2022, and is a major University of Glasgow collaboration with Glasgow City Council, bringing together over 50 multidisciplinary University of Glasgow researchers, with 29 public and private sector partners across the city region.
GALLANT will use Glasgow as a living lab to trial new sustainable solutions throughout the city, taking a whole-systems approach. While addressing the city’s key environmental challenges, the programme will consider the co-benefits and trade-offs for public health, wellbeing, and the economy. GALLANT aims to deliver the social priorities of the while remaining within the planetary boundaries of a 1.5°C world, using doughnut economics as a framework.
Diagram: Summary of doughnut economics principles. From Kate Raworth's book: Doughnut Economics. Licenced under CC-By-SA-4.0.
