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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…
Research // The water-energy-food nexus: Is the increasing attention warranted, from either a research or policy perspective?
By Dennis Wichelns. In recent years, the notion of a nexus involving water, energy, and food has been gaining attention in the scholarly literature…
Research // Water Food Energy Nexus: Changing Scenarios in India during recent Decades
By Beas Barik, Subimal Ghosh, A. Saheer Sahana, Amey Pathak and Muddu Sekhar. Meeting the growing water and food demands in a densely populated…
Water-Energy Nexus // Water, Energy, and Ecosystem Sustainability
By Cindy Loeffler, Leslie D. Hartman, and Daniel H. Chen.
Water-Energy Nexus // Integration of Water and Energy Sustainability
By Kelly T. Sanders and Carey W. King
Water-Food Nexus // An Analysis of Future Sustainable Aquatic Farming
By Sidney Batchelder, Robert Le, William F. Terry IV and Jeff Thomas. As a result of the world population growth in the next 100 years, it will be…
Water-Energy Nexus // Characterizing cooling water source and usage patterns across US thermoelectric power plants: a comprehensive assessment of self-reported cooling water data
By Rebecca A. M. Peer and Kelly T. Sanders. Approximately 86% of US power production is generated in thermoelectric power plants that require water…
Urban Energy–Water Nexus // A Network Perspective
Energy–water nexus plays a prominent role in developing sustainable roadmap for cities. This study proposes a system-based framework to synthesize…
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…
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