Better Decision Support for
Better Urban Governance
BeDS for BUG
Better Decision Support for
Better Urban Governance
BeDS for BUG
Brasília
São Paulo
Suzano
Cairo
Guayaquil
Chennai
Guadalajara
Coimbra
Marinha Grande
Manchester
Boston
Brazil
Egypt
Ecuador
India
Mexico
Portugal
United Kingdom
USA
Better Decision Support for Better Urban Governance
BeDS for BUG is a research agenda composed of several international projects with the aim of understanding the role of and developing further decision-support methods and literacy for different stakeholders engaged in urban governance.
The research explores different scales and contexts where a wide range of stakeholders - institutional, community - take the leading role in designing and implementing governance models by using effective processes to achieve their common objectives.
The research is engaging with multiple stakeholders from several urban areas, with different nature, scope and activities involved in urban governance at all scales of the urban environment.
This is a research agenda led by Dr Nuno Pinto from the University of Manchester and brings together academics from the University of Manchester (UK), the University of Brasília and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), University of Guadalajara (Mexico), KTH (Sweden), IIT Madras (India), University of Coimbra (Portugal), University of Espiritu Santo (Ecuador) and Suffolk University (USA).
It collaborates with technology partners including Geodesignhub (Ireland).
And stakeholders from different urban contexts, as Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Manchester City Council (UK), the Armazém do Campo, No Setor and Instituto Agroterra (Brazil), Guayaquil Transport Authority (Ecuador) and Coimbra Coolectiva (Portugal).
New partners are expected to join.
The BeDS4BUG research agenda aims at delivering on the United Nations SDGs





11.3 | 11.a
11.b | 11.c
13.2 | 13.b
15.6 | 15.9
16.6 | 16.7 16.8
Contact the Team
Contact Dr Nuno Pinto for information on the project at
nuno.pinto@manchester.ac.uk
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Funders which supported these projects include the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Office for Open Research of the University of Manchester (UK), the Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal, the Schlumberger Foundation and the Urban Studies Foundation.
Click on the links in the map below and check what we are doing in each of the cities.