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SDGs // The importance of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the implementation of The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
By Rabi Mohtar. Progress toward 12 of these SDGs is directly related to the sustainable use of resources such as land, food, water, energy and…
Water-Food Nexus // Water for Food. Water for Life. A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
Edited by David Molden. The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture is a critical evaluation of the benefits, costs, and impacts…
Sewage // Urban sewage in Brazil: drivers of and obstacles to wastewater treatment and reuse; governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Series
By Katharina M.K. Stepping. The case study analyses the factors that drive or hinder wastewater collection and treatment in urban Brazil and…
Case Study // Water-energy-food nexus in a transboundary context: the Euphrates–Tigris river basin as a case study
By Aysegül Kibaroglu and Sezin Iba Gürsoy. The interlinkage between water, energy and food security and its transboundary relevance is becoming…
Research // DTU International Energy Report 2016: The Energy-Water-Food Nexus 2016
A report by Technical University of Denmark. The International Energy Report 2016 analyses challenges and opportunities for wider introduction of the…
Policy Briefing // The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
By the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. The term nexus describes the key interactions between parts of a system or systems. This…
Transboundary Basins // Reconciling Resource Uses in Transboundary Basins: Assessment of the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus
By UNECE. The nexus needs to be tackled in practice across diverse physical and political settings, including in the context of transboundary river…
Wastewater Systems and Energy Saving in Urban India: Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus series
By Babette Never. This paper analyses the interdependency of water and energy in India’s wastewater sector. Wastewater treatment plants consume a…
Research // Wastewater As a Resource: The Water-Waste-Energy Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Paul Gremillion and Tamara Avellán. A Nexus Approach centred on wastewater treatment and recovery can link cycles of water, waste, and energy.…
Policy Brief // Informing national and global responses to shocks to the energy-food-water-environment nexus
This paper by Living With Environmental Change UK (LWEC) asks: "What challenges and opportunities do decision makers need to be aware of in order to…
Policy Brief // Assessing Policy Coherence in Brazil, Colombia and Peru using a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach
By David Sabogal, Helen Bellfield and Simone Bauch. The Amazonia Security Agenda focuses not only on national security in a traditional sense, but…
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…
Water-energy nexus // A low-carbon future means water security in Texas
In August of 2015, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made history by finalizing the Clean Power Plan, which establishes the first-ever limits on…
Publication // Renewable Energy in the Water, Energy & Food Nexus
Renewable energy technologies could address some of the trade-offs between water, energy and food, bringing substantial benefits in all three…
Solar Water Pumping // Solar Pumping for Irrigation: Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability
Irrigation improves yields, reduces vulnerability to changing rainfall patterns, and enables multiple cropping practices. This can stimulate…
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