Collaboratory for Urban Resilience and Energy Research Themes ThemesResearch themes cover a wide range of topics, ranging from energy, society and space, to social-ecological resilience. Resilience thinking Social-ecological resilience and vulnerability approaches form the cornerstone of our work. Energy, society and space Much of our work focuses on the geographies of energy flows in society. Climate resilience CURE has an established record in climate change mitigation and adaptation research. Spatial systems Part of our scholarship introduces complexity thinking to the understanding of environmental change.