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Urban Nexus // The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity
By Patricia Romero-Lankao, Timon McPhearson, Debra J. Davidson. While tackling interdependencies among food, energy, and water security is promising,…
SDGs // A Guide to SDG Interactions: From Science to Implementation
By the Internation Council for Science (ICSU). The report offers a blueprint to help countries implement and achieve the 17 goals and the 169 targets…
Water-Energy Nexus // Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality
By Elaine Hill and Lala Ma. Recent studies have linked shale gas development (SGD) to ground water contamination. The extent of these environmental…
Research // Possible pathways and tensions in the food and water nexus
By R. Quentin Grafton, John William and Qiang Jiang. “Bottom-up” field-based, crop-hydrological models are used to estimate food production and…
Water-Energy Nexus // Water saving potentials and possible trade-offs for future food and energy supply
By Kerstin Damerau, Anthony G. Patt and Oscar P.R. van Vliet. The sufficient supply of food and energy requires large amounts of fresh water. Mainly…
Book // Multifunctional Land-Use Systems for Managing the Nexus of Environmental Resources
Ed. by Lulu Zhang and Kai Schwärzel. The authors claim this is the first book to provide a general overview of Chinese land-policy development and…
DNC2017 // Bridging the Water and Food Gap: The Role of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
By Rabi H. Mohtar, Amjad T. Assi and Bassel T. Daher. This paper introduces a WEF Nexus approach based on a theory of holistic systems. It is a…
Research // Regulating the water-energy-food nexus: Interdependencies, transaction costs and procedural justice
By Shaun Larcom and Terry van Gevelt. There have been calls for an overhaul of regulatory and governance frameworks to incorporate the implications…
Awareness of the Food–Energy–Water Nexus and Public Policy Support in the United States: Public Attitudes Among the American People
By Kent E. Portney, Bryce Hannibal, Carol Goldsmith, Peyton McGee, Xinsheng Liu and Arnold Vedlitz. Most research into the connections between water…
Fact Sheet // Programa Diálogo Regional Nexo en América Latina y el Caribe
Políticas públicas para la gestión de las interconexiones entre agua, energía y alimentación
Forthcoming // The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing…
Nexus Outlook Report // A Collection of Nexus Case Studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia
TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences has issued a report illustratively highlighting resource use challenges across many case studies. The report…
Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Coupled Simulation and Optimization Framework
By Ali Karnib. This paper describes a framework for integrating quantitative WEF nexus simulation model (the Q-Nexus Model) with an optimization…
Research // Climate Policy and the Energy-Water-Food Nexus: A Model Linkage Approach
By Dirk Willenbockel, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. There is a growing recognition that the ambitious UN Sustainable…
Latin America // El Nexo entre el agua, la energía y la alimentación en América Latina y el Caribe: planificación, marco normativo e identificación de interconexiones prioritarias
Por Antonio Embid y Liber Martín/Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe. Este documento analiza el Nexo entre agua, energía y…
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