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…
Africa // Nexus Trade-offs and Strategies for Addressing the Water, Agriculture and Energy Security Nexus in Africa
This study by ICA, IUCN and IWA was intended to apply a structured analytical process to Africa's Volta and Lake Victoria basins and using this…
Dams // The Myth of the "Win-win" — Acknowledging Complexity in Water Development
By Fred Pearce. — For years, development agencies such as the World Bank have had a mantra: dams equal development. They have argued that, across…
The Water Footprint of Our Everyday Lives
How much water we use every day includes more than just what shows up on our water utility bill – it also includes how much we drive, the energy that…
Master Thesis // Socio-Economic Challenges Facing the Implementation and Promotion of Solar Energy Farming in Azraq Basin, Jordan
By Anas Daradkah, University of Jordan. This research investigates what hinders or facilitates the application of photovoltaic energy farming…
Call for Abstracts // Dresden Nexus Conference, 17-19 May 2017
Under the umbrella "SDGs and the Nexus Approach: Monitoring and Implementation", the Dresden Nexus Conference 2017 (DNC2017) will focus on…
Dresden Nexus Conference // SDGs and Nexus Approach - Monitoring and Implementation
The Dresden Nexus Conference is a platform developed to advance the sustainable development agenda by bringing actors together who apply a Nexus…
Mining Weekly // S Africa still reliant on coal, struggling to transition to low-carbon economy
South Africa is the twelfth-greatest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the world, as well as the biggest polluter on the African continent,…