Cities/urban Nexus
Policy Brief // Promoting Human-Centric Technologies and the Urban Nexus to address the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Sustainability Challenges of Smart Cities
By Ghadah Aldabbagh, Nikos Dimitriou, Jauad el Kharraz, Hammou Laamrani, Kamal Tumi, Daniela Diegelmann, Majed Mohammed Mustafa Hallawani, Abdullah M…
Project // CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
CRUNCH will demonstrate how the urban Food-Water-Energy Nexus can strengthen urban resilience through creating an interconnected knowledge platform…
Research Article // Synergetic management of water-energy-food nexus system and GHG emissions under multiple uncertainties: An inexact fractional fuzzy chance constraint programming method
By Ye Xu and colleagues. In this study, an inexact fractional fuzzy chance constraint programming (IFFCCP) method has been developed to provide…
Research Article // A System Innovation Approach for Science-Stakeholder Interface: Theory and Application to Water-Land-Food-Energy Nexus
By Angelos Alamanos and colleagues. The authors synthesise lessons from Greece's practical and research experience, identify knowledge and…
Job Vacancy // National Irrigation and Water Sector Expert
This consultancy position is based at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Ukraine, and is open only to Ukraine…
Urban Nexus Metabolism // Urban Metabolic Analysis of a Food-Water-Energy System for Sustainable Resources Management
By Ming-Che Hu, Chihhao Fan, Tailin Huang, Chi-Fang Wang and Yu-Hui Chen. Urban metabolism analyzes the supply and consumption of nutrition,…
Case Study // Waste Management in Laguna Province, Philippines
By Martin Schaub and Jérémie Bertrand. When analysed with a Nexus perspective, solid waste can be transformed into precious energy and water…
Urban Nexus // How Can Cities Reduce Water-Energy Nexus Pressures?
By Robert C. Brears. Cities over the past century have become the driving force of the global economy. Accounting for over half the world’s…
Job posting // (Senior) Researcher of Stakeholder Engagement
Do you share a passion for working with diverse stakeholders in innovative ways, combining high quality scientific action research with the ethical…
Research Article // Sustainable WEF Nexus Management: A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Models of Social, Economic, Policy, and Institutional Developments
By Ebun Akinsete and colleagues. With the inefficient management of natural resources recognized as the biggest obstacle to achieving sustainable WEF…
Call for Abstracts // Circular Economy: Addressing the novel concept of water-food-energy Nexus for the sustainable future
FrontiersIn is accepting abstracts for the research topic 'Circular Economy: Addressing the novel concept of water-food-energy Nexus for the…
Publication // The making of a sustainable food city in Barcelona: insights from the water, energy, and food urban nexus
By Moises Covarrubias and Ingrid Boas. This paper examines the making of urban sustainable food provisioning through the case of Barcelona. The…
Vacancy // Nexus Research Associate at Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
Within the framework of the project "Globally and Locally-sustainable Food-Water-Energy Innovation in Urban Living Labs (GLOCULL)", this vacancy is…
Urban Nexus // Sustainable and Healthy Food – Views from the City of Brighton and Hove
By Emily O’Brien. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. The author looks at key issues and challenges associated with…
Slides // City Profiling & Benchmarking The Urban Nexus
By Constanze Heydkamp, Fraunhofer Insitute for Industrial Engineering IAO, at Third Regional Workshop on Integrated Resource Management in Asian…