Circular Economy
Research Article // Water–Energy–Food Nexus and Life Cycle Thinking: A New Approach to Environmental and Nutritional Assessment of Potato Chips
By Fernández-Ríos Ana and colleagues. This study addresses the water–energy–food Nexus issues by analyzing the environmental impacts and nutritional…
Publication // Circular economy approach to reduce water–energy–food nexus
By Adriana Del Borghi, Luca Moreschi, Michela Gallo. The purpose of the review was to discuss the circular economy approaches devoted to understand…
Blog // Stakeholders explore opportunities to finance Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus projects in the Western Balkans
What are the necessary conditions that will pave the way for the implementation of impactful Nexus solutions and investments in the Drin and…
Research Article // Quantifying the water-energy-food Nexus in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao regions
By Pan Zhan and colleagues. This study quantified the WEF Nexus in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao by constructing an environmentally extended…
Call for Abstracts // Circular Economy: Addressing the novel concept of water-food-energy Nexus for the sustainable future
FrontiersIn is accepting abstracts for the research topic 'Circular Economy: Addressing the novel concept of water-food-energy Nexus for the…
Open Call for Artists // ClimArtLab Evolving Futures: Owning our Mess
The Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Klosterneuburg and the think tank artEC/Oindustry are embarking in an…
Research Article // Infrastructure Shaming and Consequences for Management of Urban WEF Security Nexus in China and India
By Daphne Gondhalekar and Jörg E. Drewes. This study demonstrates that even when water stress and awareness are high as in Shaxi and Leh, it is not a…
Nexus Blog // UNECE launches methodology to evaluate the sustainability of infrastructure projects and guidelines on Waste-to-Energy projects for the circular economy
As countries all over the world aim at ‘building back better’ from the COVID-19 pandemic, the recently-launched UNECE People-first PPP Evaluation…
Research article // Wastewater resources management for energy recovery from circular economy perspective
By Mohanna Zarei. This article provides an overview of wastewater treatment and management for energy production from a circular economy point of…
Research Article // Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Centralized and Decentralized Water Reclamation with Resource Recovery Strategies in Leh Town, Ladakh, India, and Potential for Their Reduction in Context of the Water–Energy–Food Nexus
By Mounia Lahmouri, Jörg E. Drewes and Daphne Gondhalekar. This study compared the carbon footprint of the operation of the current and future water…
Publication // A revised draft People-first Public-Private Partnerships Evaluation Methodology for the Sustainable Development Goals
This document contains a draft People-first Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Evaluation Methodology for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
Project // Integrated Urban Services
Integrated Urban Services (IUS) is a program under the United States-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (US-ASEAN) Smart Cities Partnership…
Project // Kök Projekt
Kök Projekt is an agri-food startup accelerator from Istanbul, Turkey and an innovation partner for food, agriculture and water sector companies…
Publication // Developing a Sustainable and Circular Bio-Based Economy in EU: By Partnering Across Sectors, Upscaling and Using New Knowledge Faster, and For the Benefit of Climate, Environment & Biodiversity, and People & Business
By Lene Lange, Kevin O. Connor, Sigurjon Arason, Uffe Bundgård-Jørgensen, Antonella Canalis, Dirk Carrez, Joe Gallagher, Niels Gøtke, Christian…