Royal Geographical Society // Annual Conference 2018
The 2018 Annual International Conference will be held at Cardiff University from Tuesday 28 August to Friday 31 August 2018. This year's topic is "Geographical landscapes / changing landscapes of geography". This broad theme provides an opportunity to explore ideas of landscape within geographical scholarship, the popularity of landscape beyond the academy, and the shifting landscapes of geography as an academic discipline.
The event will cover the Nexus in a number of sessions:
Session at RGS 2018 // What is Driving the Water-Energy-Food Nexus? Knowledge, Power and Genesis of an Emerging Resource Governance Concept
Session at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society: In the context of accelerated global change, the Water-Energy-Food Nexus has gained increasing attention…
Session at RGS 2018 // Cross-Sectoral Collaboration and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Lessons from Policy and Practice in Tanzania
The water-energy-food nexus recognises the strong interconnections between key sectors underpinning development in sub-Saharan Africa, all of which are vulnerable to climate…
Session at RGS 2018 // Adaptive Management and Governance of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Water Resources East (WRE) is pioneering a long-term multi-sector water resources strategy for the East of England to provide a sustainable supply of water to the region for…
Session at RGS 2018 // Amazon’s Hydropower-Navigation-Agribusiness Nexus
One of the main processes of politico-economic change in the Amazon Region today is the construction of large-scale water projects, especially for hydroelectricity generation…
Session at RGS 2018 // Understanding the Potential of Innovative Public-Private-Partnerships at the Nexus
This talk will present ongoing research exploring the role of new forms of public-private-partnerships in the governance and provision of Nexus infrastructure and services.…
Session at RGS 2018 // Decentralising the Governance of the Nexus: The Challenges of Politics and Power in Finding Workable Solutions to a Democratic Management of the Landscape
The Shire River Basin in Malawi is a landscape that brings the nexus of food, water and energy into sharp focus: the landscape generates 90% of the country’s electricity,…
Session at RGS 2018 // Who is Responsible for Integration? Responsibility in WEEF Nexus Governance
Integration is a both a goal and a challenge for nexus governance. Recent research on the implementation of policy instruments governing land use in Scotland returns us to…
Session at RGS 2018 // Operationalising an Ecosystem Approach for NEXUS Governance: The Case of Natural Resources Wales
The water-energy-food-environment nexus presents a significant governance challenge; representing a Gordian knot of entangled challenges, scales, perspectives, interests, and…
Session at RGS 2018 // Landscaping Ecosystem Services – A Landscape-Nexus Approach: Meaning, Narrative and Integration
This talk will present work that builds on and extends recent research arguing that landscape, both conceptually and functionally, acts as a cross-cutting theme to ground…
Session at RGS 2018 // Multi-Aspectual Evaluation: An Integrative Approach to Nexus Policies
The complexity of contemporary global challenges at the nexus of water, food and energy supplies calls not only for creative solutions but also for robust evaluation tools…
Session at RGS 2018 // Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: The Role of Blockchain Technologies
Ensuring good governance of Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus systems is pivotal, as these underpin human sustenance. A number of characteristics have been identified in the…
Session at RGS 2018 // The Role of Quantifying Material Flows in the Governance of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
In recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in both academia and policy highlighting the need to address the institutional,…
Workshop at RGS 2018 // Adaptive Management and Governance of the Food-Energy-Water-Environment Nexus
This workshop session will begin with an overview of the common themes emerging from the papers presented in Adaptive management and governance of the…