Governance // Food, Energy and Water Sustainability. Emergent Governance Strategies
Ed. by Laura M. Pereira, Caitlin A. McElroy, Alexandra Littaye and Alexandra M. Girard. Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector and private sector resource management. This volume presents a diversity of collaborations between various governance actors in the management of the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus. It analyses the ability of emergent governance structures to cope with the complexity of future challenges across FEW systems.
Divided into two sections, chapters in the first half of the book present a collection of case studies from around the world exemplifying how FEW nexus challenges are addressed in a multitude of ways and by a variety of actors,. Chapters in the second half offer broader perspectives on the management of FEW and underline the lessons that emerge from applying a FEW lens to the question of natural resource governance.
The varied examples in this book highlight that the management of FEW is often a question of reinventing, adapting, and building upon existing practices. Such practices are deeply embedded in unique socio-cultural, environmental, and political contexts as well as ‘hard' infrastructures. Most of all, this edited volume seeks to communicate the wealth of ideas from committed individuals who continue to work to improve natural resource governance and our sustainable futures.
Content
- An introduction to food-energy-water nexus thinking and sustainability governance
By Laura M. Pereira and Caitlin A. McElroy - Securing Food, Energy, and Water in India
By Melissa M. Rohde - The evolution of the narrative of corn in Mexico
By Alexandra Littaye - Historical path dependencies and energy governance in post-Apartheid South Africa
By Agostino Inguscio - Water for energy in China
By Liao Xiawei, Jim W. Hall and Nick Eyre - The case of Peruvian asparagus
By Swathi Veeravalli - Water markets and the food-energy-water nexus in Australia
By Michael Valli and Alexandra M. Girard - Institutional bricolage to address sustainability challenges in the South African sugarcane industry
By Jessica Cockburn, Vaughan Koopman, Laura M. Pereira and Jaci van Niekerk - Corporate water risk and return
By Alex Money - Natural resource management and marine protected areas
By Thomas Chaigneau - An ontology of development in the geopolitical North
By Brice Perombelon - Bridging ICTs with governance capabilities for food-energy-water sustainability
By Timothy Karpouzoglou, Laura M. Pereira and Samir Doshi - Out of sight, out of mind?
By Caitlin A. McElroy - Conclusions
By Laura M. Pereira, Alexandra M. Girard and Caitlin A. McElroy
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Published
January 2018