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CECAN Project Reports

  • CECAN Progress Report March 2016 – February 2023, provides an overview of the project, its findings, and impacts.
  • CECAN Project Report 2021
  • Learning Lessons for Evaluating Complexity at the Nexus – A meta-evaluation of CEP projects (Collingwood Environmental Planning)
  • CECAN and NEKS held a workshop with senior infrastructure experts and academics to explore the issues around the relationships between public infrastructure and private finance over the life of infrastructure projects.
  • Richard Gunton, CECAN Fellow, gave a talk at the ‘Valuing Nature’ event in Edinburgh.
  • Sara Giorgi, CECAN Fellow, has completed her project “How to Improve the Evaluation of Complex Systems to Better Inform Policymaking: Learning From Evaluating DEFRA’s Reward and Recognition Fund.
  • To access the Summary Report following the CECAN International Symposium held in November 2017, please click here. Furthermore, links to the presentations that were given at the Symposium are available to download here.
  • Joanna Boehnert, CECAN Fellow, has completed her project and her final poster depicting the visualisation of complexity, can be downloaded here.
  • A participatory systems map of the Energy Trilemma – A CECAN report for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy by Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alex Penn. To download a high resolution version of the map, please click here.
  • Jayne Cox, CECAN Fellow, has published a project report from her funded fellowship project entitled “How does the commissioning process inhibit the uptake of complexity-appropriate evaluation?”. The report is available to download here.
  • Pete Barbrook-Johnson, a UKRI Innovation Fellow hosted by CECAN, has published the first report from his 3-year fellowship. The report, ‘Innovative partnerships: a review of innovative public-private partnerships in food-energy-water-environment domains in the UK’, is available to download here.

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