Weston Roundtable Lecture // Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Opportunities And Limits Of Integrationist Frameworks
The WEF nexus seeks to overcome isolationist tendencies in resource management, purporting to interlink food, energy, and water as resources, institutions, and essential elements of human security. Does the nexus – the latest in a series of integrationist frameworks – provide better conceptual clarity, operational tools, and human-security outcomes than its predecessors?
Chris Scott traces WEF nexus origins, synthesizes insights from nexus thinking, identifies limits in its application, and explores its inevitable demise. Emerging frameworks must ultimately confront social and political equity, climate, ecological, and economic-growth limits of resource use.
When and Where
1 Nov 2018
16:15-17:15
1163 Mechanical Engineering
1513 University Ave.
Speaker
Chris Scott is Director and Research Professor at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy University of Arizona.
Further Information
Contact: Erin Smith
Call: 608-262-9334
Visit: https://nelson.wisc.edu/sage/weston-roundtable/index.php
This event was originally posted on the Wisconsin Ecology website.