Urban Nexus
Case Study // Nashik, India. Demonstrating the Urban NEXUS approach to optimize water, energy and land resources in peri-urban agriculture
The pilot projects focused on the management and optimized utilization of energy and groundwater to limit the impacts of constrained resources on…
Urban Nexus Metabolism // Urban Metabolic Analysis of a Food-Water-Energy System for Sustainable Resources Management
By Ming-Che Hu, Chihhao Fan, Tailin Huang, Chi-Fang Wang and Yu-Hui Chen. Urban metabolism analyzes the supply and consumption of nutrition,…
Research article // Integration of green and gray infrastructures for sponge city: Water and energy nexus
By Yongjun Sun, Li Deng, Shu-Yuan Pan, Pen-Chi Chiang, Shailesh S. Sable, Kinjal J. Shah. This paper introduces the concepts of gray infrastructure,…
Urban Nexus // How Can Cities Reduce Water-Energy Nexus Pressures?
By Robert C. Brears. Cities over the past century have become the driving force of the global economy. Accounting for over half the world’s…
Case Study // Waste Management in Laguna Province, Philippines
By Martin Schaub and Jérémie Bertrand. When analysed with a Nexus perspective, solid waste can be transformed into precious energy and water…
Urban Nexus // Innovative Municipal Solid Waste Management Training on Maximum Yield Technology (MYT)
By Ruth Erlbeck, Ralph Trosse and Rashane Sala Ngarm (The Urban Nexus Project). When it comes to solid waste treatment, most cities in Asia face…
Нексус в Центральной Азии // ВНЕДРЕНИЕ ПОДХОДА ВЗАИМОСВЯЗИ «ВОДА-ЭНЕРГИЯ-ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВИЕ-ЭКОСИСТЕМЫ» В НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЕ СИСТЕМЫ ПЛАНИРОВАНИЯ
Вторая фаза (2020-2023) проекта Европейского Союза «Центрально-Азиатский Диалог по стимулированию межсекторального финансирования на основе…
Presentations // Nexus - Implemented by Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban NEXUS
By Ruth Erlebeck, GIZ, at Third Regional Workshop on Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: the Urban Nexus, 25 - 27 June 2014, Da Nang,…
Urban Nexus Project // Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: The Urban Nexus Project
By Ruth Erlbeck. The “nexus” approach aims at integrated planning and management processes of the key sectors of energy, water and food. This…
Nexus Workshop // Outcomes of the Cairo Water Week 2019 Side Event: Promoting Urban Nexus in the MENA Region
This article summarizes the main outcomes and discussion points of the workshop "Promoting Urban Nexus in the MENA Region - A Side Event at Cairo…
Publication // Peri-urban territories and WEF nexus: the challenges of Brazilian agrarian reform areas for social justice
By Thainara Granero de Melo, Bruno Lacerra de Souza and Rosemeire Aparecida Scopinho. Drawing on the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus’ critical and…
Urban Nexus Policy Development Workshop // Applying the Urban Nexus Concept to Implementing Global Agendas
By Ruth Erlbeck, Ralph Trosse and Rashane Sala-Ngarm. The GIZ “Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: The Urban Nexus” project conducted an…
Urban Nexus India // Urban Nexus Training Successfully Conducted in India
By Ruth Erlbeck and Rashane Sala-Ngarm. India is currently shifting its focus from rural to urban development as urban areas contribute to more than…
Urban Nexus // A Scale Perspective on the ‘Urban Nexus’: The Integration of Different Scales of Infrastructure System
By Liz Varga. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. Infrastructure systems have unique design characteristics that often…
Project // Globally and LOCally-sustainable food-water-energy innovation in Urban Living Labs (GLOCULL)
The GLOCULL project therefore aims to develop an Urban Living Lab approach for innovations in the FWE nexus that are locally and globally sustainable.