Sanitation // Green Opportunities for Urban Sanitation Challenges through Energy, Water and Nutrient Recovery
By Pay Drechsel and Munir A. Hanjra. A Nexus approach means that when governments and industries determine policies in one sector – whether energy,…
Research // The History of the Nexus at the Intergovernmental Level
By Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram. This article explores the development of water, energy and food as sectors and how they have come into conflict at…
Finance // Capital Markets at the Nexus of Sustainable Development
By Steve Waygood. For generations policy makers have sought to align the interests of the financial markets and society. Nowhere is this tension more…
Resilience // Natural Resource Security in an Uncertain World
By Sylvia Lee .The rapid industrialization and economic growth of the twentieth century brought tremendous progress – life expectancy doubled and…
PPP // Building Partnerships for Resilience
By David Norman and Stuart Orr. This article is based on the experience of two organizations, WWF and SABMiller, that have worked closely together to…
Private Sector // Principles for the Integration of the Nexus within Business
By Felix Dodds and Cole Simons. In the context of this article, the Nexus refers to four areas: water, food, energy and the impacts of climate…
Research // Sustainable Development Goals and Policy Integration in the Nexus
By David Le Blanc. This article tries to shed light on the question of whether the SDGs can provide a conducive framework for policy integration in…
Urban Nexus // Operationalizing the Urban Nexus: Increasing the Productivity of Cities and Urbanized Nations
By Kathrine Brekke and Jeb Brugmann. In 2014, GIZ and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability published a report, Operationalizing the Urban…
Research // The Water, Energy And Food Nexus and Ecosystems: The Political Economy of Food and Non-food Supply Chains
By Tony Allan and Nathanial Matthews. In this article, the authors argue that the Nexus concept must incorporate a strong ecosystem stewardship…
Expertism // The Confederacy of Experts: The Crushing Nexus of Silos, Systems, Arrogance and Irrational Certainty
By Gary Lawrence. The problems of our time, belief in the value of specialization over generalization and the history of educational praxis inspire…
Resilience // The Nexus in Small Island Developing States
By Liz Thompson. The purpose of this chapter is to consider the benefi t and possible approaches of a strategic formulation and implementation of…
Analysis // From Bonn 2011 Nexus to Chapel Hill via Rio+20
By Albert Butare. In this foreword to a collection of nexus articles, edited by Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram, the author summarises the development…
WEF Nexus and Climate // World Bank Steps Up Climate Funding in Arab World
The World Bank Group announced today a new plan to ramp up support for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to confront the…
Business Insider // These solar panels can literally pull clean drinking water out of thin air
Our atmosphere contains approximately 3,100 cubic miles of water — enough to cover the entire planet in one inch of water. That water surrounds us in…
MENA // The Middle East Water-Energy Food Nexus
Roundtable discussion organised by the Hollings Center for International Dialogue