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Book // Storage and Scarcity: New Practices for Food, Energy and Water
By Giorgio Osti. In an era of abundance, at least part of humanity has stopped thinking about the future provision of basic vital resources such…
Energy-Water Nexus: The Water Sector’s Energy Use
By US Congressional Research Service. This report provides background on energy for facilities that treat and deliver water to end users and also…
Modelling // A Quantitative Assessment Framework for Water, Energy and Food Nexus
By Ali Karnib. This paper presents a quantitative assessment framework of the Water, Energy and Food (W-E-F) nexus, the Q-Nexus Model. The proposed…
Walking the Nexus Talk // Assessing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Context of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative
By Alessandro Flammini, Manas Puri, Lucie Pluschke and Olivier Dubois. This report proposes a way to carry out a water-energy-food nexus assessment…
White Book // Advancing a Nexus Approach to the sustainable management of water, soil and waste : reference material for the nexus conference 2015
Ed. by Stephan Hülsmann and Reza Ardakanian. Reference material for the Dresden Nexus Conference 2015: Global Change, SDGs, Nexus Approach.
Risk // The Critical Role of Risk in Setting Directions for Water, Food and Energy Policy and Research
By Louise Gallagher, James Dalton et al. The sustainable development goals (SDGs) challenge markets, regulators and practitioners to achieve multiple…
Research Brief Collection // The Water-Energy-Land-Climate Nexus (Project Summary)
From Payment for Ecosystem services to Transboundary River Basin Organisations: The interdependencies in the use of resources and the safe provision…
Research Brief // Cooperative Agreements between the Water and the Agricultural Sector
By Carmen Richerzhagen and Waltina Scheumann. The agricultural and drinking water sectors are closely interconnected. By increasing production…
Research Brief // Payments for Ecosystem Services and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
By Jean Carlo Rodríguez de Francisco. Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are an established instrument for addressing externality problems among…
Research Brief // Sewage Systems and Energy: Focus on Urban India
By Babette Never. Sewage treatment plants use vast amounts of energy; in many places, they account for the lion’s share of municipal energy…
Research Brief // Governing the Nexus between Water, Energy and Food: Instruments, Incentives and Mechanisms
By Ines Dombrowsky, Waltina Scheumann and Babette Never. Isolated sector policies competing with one another for resources do not offer any viable…
Research Brief // Regional Organisations Promote Nexus Governance for Hydropower Along International Rivers
By Ines Dombrowsky and Waltina Scheumann. Many African and Asian countries are currently investing in hydropower in order to contribute to a…
Research Brief // Coordinating Planning in the Agricultural and Water Sectors: Zambia
By Waltina Scheumann. Zambia’s agricultural sector has so far fallen short of its development potential. Just 10 percent or so of water and land…
Transboundary Basins // Reconciling Resource Uses in Transboundary Basins: Assessment of the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus in the Syr Darya River Basin
By UNECE. The Syr Darya Basin, shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, represents a classic example for exploring the…
Modelling & Assessment // The development of the energy, water and food nexus systems model
By Tareq Al-Ansari. The objective of this thesis is to present the details and function of the EWF Nexus environmental assessment tool, and…
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