UrbanBuzz
Building sustainable communities
Project EASY
Evidencing Adaptable Sustainability
A key to sustainability is the quality of services and opportunities afforded residents by their local social infrastructure.
Where the needs of residents rapidly change due to (im)migration, social and economic mobility and transience, there is
a need for robust mechanisms for compiling and updating the evidence base on which policy and planning changes,
particularly social infrastructure planning, must necessarily be founded.
EASY has four broad aims:
to use a wide range of administrative and other data sets to
construct an integrated evidence bases of demographic,
social and cultural change by small area geography;
to develop micro-simulation models that will produce demographic projections by small area geography; also managing
the uncertainties in the base data;
to promote the use of the evidence base and the demographic
graphic projections in support of social infrastructure planning;
to deliver knowledge transfer through capacity building and
skills enhancement so that Local Authorities can continue to
monitor change and adapt social infrastructure to meet change.
Project leader:
Professor Allan Brimicombe
Centre for Geo-Information Studies,
University of East London
a.j.brimicombe@uel.ac.uk
EASY will work in partnership with a range of organizations:
Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, utility companies
and NGOs.
BERR
Department for Business
Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
Project partners:
Centre for Geo-Information Studies, UEL
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
Terra Cognita
Thames Gateway London Partnership