Publication // Water & Energy Nexus: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Manage Energy and Water Tradeoffs
Water and energy are inextricably linked and mutually dependent, with each affecting the other's availability. Since 2009, GAO has issued five…
Publication // Water Services Management and Governance: Lessons for a Sustainable Future
The book focuses on water services (water supply, wastewater services) and deals with connections between water resources and services and water…
Publication // Making Space for the River: Governance experiences with multifunctional river flood management in the US and Europe
This book examines recent developments in river (flood) management from the viewpoint of Making Space for the River and the resulting challenges for…
Publication // Water and Energy - Threats and Opportunities
This book creates an awareness of the important couplings between water and energy. It shows how energy is used in all the various water cycle…
The Guardian // Food Scarcity: The Timebomb Setting Nation against Nation
As the UN and Oxfam warn of the dangers ahead, expert analyst Lester Brown says time to solve the problem is running out.
Oxfam Report // "Our Land, Our Lives": Time out on the global land rush
Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people, equivalent to the number of…
Bridging the gap between water and economics
"Just how important is the nexus between water and the economy?" What was most inspiring about it was not so much that the event nailed the…
Map // The Food Security Risk Index Map
The index has been developed by the risk analysis company Maplecroft for governments, NGOs and business to use as a barometer to identify those…
Publication // Food Energy Water: The Foundation Systems of Modern Society
By Arthur Jackson - Why does our society or any society function as it does? Many of the activities were established by social systems created in the…
Research // Securing the Future of India's "Water, energy and food"
This paper provides an initial, formal analysis for the design of an Indian food procurement system that considers climate driven variations in…
Mode Shift - Keith Schneider's Blog // Contest Between Water and Energy Becoming Big Story
Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist, yesterday described the confrontation between population growth and water in China, arguing that a nation…
AgriWaterpedia // Water, Energy and Food Nexus
"The nexus approach embeds the opinion water, energy and food security cannot be achieved in single sector methodology. Considering the interlinkages…
Global Hunger Index 2012 // "The Challenge of Hunger: Ensuring Sustainable Food Security Under Land, Water, and Energy Stresses"
Recent events–drought, scrambles to invest in farmland around the world, shifts in energy prices, and shocks in energy supplies–underline the…
Bonn Perspectives // Adaptation to climate change — a case for business! Five messages to the private sector
Climate change is exerting an increasing influence on the general conditions faced by market economies. This poses a challenge that is complex,…
Agriculture & Ecosystems Blog // Forget future land and water scarcity, will there be enough farmers?
With droughts on three continents triggering rising food prices, Malthusian fears are growing about the world's ability to feed a fast-growing…