Policy Brief // Economic Growth and Resource Use: Exploring the Links
By Janez Sušnik (UNESCO-IHE). This policy brief aims at exploring the relationship between GDP and GDP-per-capita with the resource metrics and…
Book // Nexus Planning Primer: Lessons from Case Studies
By Mathew Kurian, Mario Suardi, Reza Ardakanian, UNU-FLORES. — Based on the analysis of three case studies, this planning primer sets out to lay down…
Book Launch at World Water Week 2016 // Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture: Good Practice Examples
Wastewater management provides one of the best natural examples to demonstrate the usefulness of the Nexus Approach to managing water, soil, and…
Seminar at World Water Week 2016 // Wastewater Reuse for Enhanced Food and Non-Food Value Chains
The seminar will explore the opportunities of using wastewater and organic waste within multifunctional land-use systems for the production of food…
NexNews // UNU-FLORES launches Nexus Newsletter
A new quarterly e-newsletter has been launched by UNU-FLORES to forster a deeper appreciation for and understanding of the interconnectedness of the…
Article // A Nexus Approach to Urban and Regional Planning Using the Four-Capital Framework of Ecological Economics
By Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski. — Ecological economics views our world as an interconnected complex system of humanity embedded in the rest of…
Article // Climate Change, Profligacy, Poverty and Destruction: All Things Are Connected
By Brian Moss. — Climate change is linked with profligacy in richer societies, poverty in the developing world and destruction of natural ecosystems…
Article // The Urban Water–Energy Nexus: Building Resilience for Global Change in the “Urban Century”
By Christopher A. Scott (School of Geography & Development, and Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, The University of Arizona), Arica Crootof,…
Article // Role of Soils for Satisfying Global Demands for Food, Water, and Bioenergy
By Winfried E. H. Blum. — The large increase in food production in the second half of the last century, mainly through the “green revolution” and…
Article // Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Water and Land Context
By Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz (Institute for Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact…
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…
Article // Implications of the Nexus Approach When Assessing Water and Soil Quality as a Function of Solid and Liquid Waste Management
By Johan Bouma (Soil Science, Wageningen University). — The Nexus approach is valuable when screening the overwhelming number of publications on…
Book // Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach - Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change
By Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, Reza Ardakanian (Eds.) - This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach…
Research // Decision-Making under Risks: Agricultural Water Security in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam
The Australian National University (ANU), the Institute of Policy and Strategy for the Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) and the FE2W…
Bloomberg // Data Centers' Water Use Has Investors on High Alert - Can companies keep using hundreds of millions of gallons a year as California dries up?
Data centers, used by governments and large corporations to house their computer systems, have one big environmental problem: They get hot. To keep…