Call for Abstracts // Local Climate Solutions for Africa (LOCS4Africa): Water and Climate
Water is the critical challenge facing many of Africa’s local governments. African cities, ranging from large metro's to small towns, are…
Call for Applications // Wanted: Exceptional Innovations to Produce More Food with Less Water
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the…
Tool // Integrated SDG Planning Model iSDG
The iSDG is a comprehensive simulation tool that generates country-specific development scenarios to show the implications of policy on a country’s…
Tools // New Version of Integrated SDG Planning Model iSDG
The Millennium Institute (MI) is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of the Integrated Sustainable Development Goals planning model…
Zero Hunger by 2030 // Ending Hunger: The Nexus Approach
By Fuad Siala. In the quest to ensure adequate supplies of food for a growing global population, development planners must be sensitive to the…
Research // Water Governance in a Comparative Perspective: From IWRM to a "Nexus" Approach?
By David Benson (University of Exeter), Animesh Gain (Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam), Josselin Rouillard (Ecologic Institute). Nexus thinking, in the…
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…