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Sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus
By Anik Bhaduri, Claudia Ringler, Ines Dombrowsky, Rabi Mohtar and Waltina Scheumann. This article is an introduction to a special issue of Water…
River Basins // The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Transboundary Context: Insights from Large Asian Rivers
By Marko Keskinen, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Mirja Kattelus, Miina Porkka, Timo A. Räsänen and Olli Varis. Based on a comparative analysis of three…
Open Research Forum // Food-Energy-Water Systems: Opportunities at the Nexus
Ed. by Anne R. Kapuscinski, Michael E. Chang and Kim Locke. This Elementa Forum welcomes research articles, reviews, policy bridges, practice bridges…
Research // Opportunities for energy-water nexus management in the Middle East and North Africa
By Amro M. Farid, William N. Lubega and William W. Hickman. The goal of this paper is to identify and motivate several opportunities for enhanced…
UN ESCWA // Water-Energy Nexus Operational Toolkit: Regional Policy Toolkit for the Arab Region
The water and energy nexus regional policy toolkit was prepared as part of the United Nations Development Account (UNDA) project on developing the…
Research // Global Risks and Opportunities in Food, Energy, Environment and Water to 2050
By R. Quentin Grafton. In this article the author reflects on where the world was in 1968, where it is heading in the context of the Food, Energy,…
Agriculture // Smallholder Farmers are at the Nexus of Post-2015 Development Issues
By Iain MacGillivray. Sustainable smallholder agriculture provides a powerful vehicle to deliver multiple benefits across all of the dimensions of…
Energy // Adding to Complexity: Climate Change in the Energy – Water Nexus
By Diego Rodriguez, Anna Delgado Martin and Antonia Sohns. Although the Water–Energy (and Climate) Nexus varies by region, challenges in securing…
Urban Nexus // The Contribution of Innovation in Urban Resilience and Sustainability to Realizing the Urban Nexus
By Nicholas You. The purpose of this article is to look at lessons learned from a unique snapshot of case studies in urban innovation from different…
Sanitation // Green Opportunities for Urban Sanitation Challenges through Energy, Water and Nutrient Recovery
By Pay Drechsel and Munir A. Hanjra. A Nexus approach means that when governments and industries determine policies in one sector – whether energy,…
Research // The History of the Nexus at the Intergovernmental Level
By Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram. This article explores the development of water, energy and food as sectors and how they have come into conflict at…
Finance // Capital Markets at the Nexus of Sustainable Development
By Steve Waygood. For generations policy makers have sought to align the interests of the financial markets and society. Nowhere is this tension more…
Resilience // Natural Resource Security in an Uncertain World
By Sylvia Lee .The rapid industrialization and economic growth of the twentieth century brought tremendous progress – life expectancy doubled and…
PPP // Building Partnerships for Resilience
By David Norman and Stuart Orr. This article is based on the experience of two organizations, WWF and SABMiller, that have worked closely together to…
Private Sector // Principles for the Integration of the Nexus within Business
By Felix Dodds and Cole Simons. In the context of this article, the Nexus refers to four areas: water, food, energy and the impacts of climate…
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