Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is taking place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012.
The ESRC is marking Rio week by highlighting how social sciences are contributing to environmental research across a range of areas – such as societal change and policy uptake, consumer habits, employment, poverty, resource management, security, global development, low-income economies and risk mitigation.
In this video Professor Mark Harvey discusses his research on the development of drinking water infrastructures in the UK, India, Mexico and Taiwan.