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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 // Nexus Platform meets Nexus Observatory: "Concept and Use Cases for the Nexus Observatory Prototype"
Presentation by Gerhard Rappold, GIZ, held at the Dresden Nexus Conference 2017 at the launch event of the collaboration between the Nexus Resource…
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…
Case Study // The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Challenges for the Chilean agriculture
By Rike Becker and Laura Margarete Simon. Chile is a long narrow strip of land squeezed between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, with a…
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
Fact Sheet // Programme: Nexus – Water, Energy and Food Security for Bolivia
German Development Cooperation supports the integration and systematic implementation of multi-sectoral development measures.
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…
MENA // Food and Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa
By NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA), ed. by Osman Askin Bak. For many years, the Science and Technology Committee (STC) of the NATO PA has underlined…
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…
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