A North Dakota City shows how to get smart on water infrastructure
Water infrastructure and management play a key role in the development of smart citites, and smart cities of the future must intelligently address…
// Press Release // IWS to explore energy-efficient desal methods
Expert on desalination technologies calls IWS a "strong platform to spark innovation".
Article // Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Questions of Accountability and Autonomy
By Linda Gonçalves Veiga (Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas (NIPE), Universidade do Minho), Mathew Kurian. — This chapter addresses…
Article // The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Complex Global Challenges
By Christopher A. Scott (Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona), Mathew Kurian,…
Article // The Nexus Approach to Governance of Environmental Resources Considering Global Change
By Mathew Kurian (Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources, United Nations University), Reza Ardakanian. — Global…
Article // Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Infrastructure Projects
By V. Ratna Reddy, Mathew Kurian. — This paper reviews the existing research work on the application of Life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) with an…
Article // The Nexus Approach to Managing Water, Soil and Waste under Changing Climate and Growing Demands on Natural Resources
By Rattan Lal (Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University). — The human population has increased more than a thousand…
Article // Applications of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Water and Wastewater Projects: Lessons from European Experience
By Georg Schiller (Leibniz-Institut of Ecological Urban and Regional Development), Stefan Dirlich. — Experiences of applying the life cycle costing…
Article // Results-Based Financing and Its Potential Role in Advancing the Nexus Approach
By Mario Suardi (International Development Consultant), Mathew Kurian. The need to improve the effectiveness of development financing provided by…
Article // Policy Is Policy and Science Is Science: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?
By Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian. — The comparative advantage of the United Nations University (UNU) system lies in its ability to design, execute…
Article // Visualization of Water Services in Africa: Data Applications for Nexus Governance
By Theresa Mannschatz, Manfred F. Buchroithner, Stephan Hülsmann. — Africa receives the third largest amount of global annual precipitation, which…
Book // Governing the Nexus Water, Soil and Waste Resources Considering Global Change
By Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian (Eds.) - Global trends such as urbanization, demographic and climate change that are currently underway pose…
Article // Designing Sustainable Wastewater Reuse Systems: Towards an Agroecology of Wastewater Irrigation
By Philipp Weckenbrock (International Development Consultant), Graham Alabaster. — One of the challenges of population growth and rapid urbanization…
Ecosystem Marketplace // Blog // 2014: The Year For Nature-Based Solutions?
As the constraint on natural resources increases, the public and private sector are becoming more receptive to holistic nature-based solutions to…
Rationale // Addressing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Asia Pacific
The concentration of systemic risks on the linkages between water, energy and food, i.e. the Water-Food-Energy Nexus, exacerbated by climate change,…