Water-Energy-Food Nexus // A Platform for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
By Raya Marina Stephan, Rabi H. Mohtar, Bassel Daher, et al. Tight interconnections exist between water, energy, and food systems. As stresses on these resource systems continue to increase, there is a growing need to better quantify and understand the trade-offs associated with their future planning and management. The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus offers an approach to achieving water, energy and food security, helping ensure access for basic human needs.
Content
- Why the nexus?
- Understanding the nexus
- Why consider the nexus?
- Global policy objectives and the WEF nexus: from the perspectives of the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Human rights
- National and transboundary challenges
- National and local implementation
- Transboundary considerations
- Messaging and communication
- Stakeholder engagement and positive messaging
- Tools for informing the policy process: challenges to a process inclusive of different stakeholders
Authors
Raya Marina Stephan, Rabi H. Mohtar, Bassel Daher, Antonio Embid Irujo, Astrid Hillers, J. Carl Ganter, Louise Karlberg, Liber Martin, Saeed Nairizi, Diego J. Rodriguez and Will Sarni
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Published
March 2018
In
Water International, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2018.1446581