Article // Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change (Editorial)

By Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, Reza Ardakanian. — This is an introductory chapter to the book. It provides the background and brief discussion on how and why resource management efficiency should be improved and how the proposed nexus approach may help. It provides a definition to the nexus approach applied to the water-soil-waste context. It also discusses how the negative impacts from some global change aspects can be overcome with nexus thinking.