Cities/urban Nexus
Case Study // Waste Management in Danang, Vietnam
By Martin Schaub and Jérémie Bertrand. This case study analyses the feasibility of viable solutions for an environmentally friendly and future-proof…
Urban Nexus // Operationalizing the Urban Nexus: Increasing the Productivity of Cities and Urbanized Nations
By Kathrine Brekke and Jeb Brugmann. In 2014, GIZ and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability published a report, Operationalizing the Urban…
Research Article // Feasibility of energy generation with biogas at the household level: assessing the impact of anaerobic co-digestion of waste activated sludge and food waste taking a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach
By Gabriel Hernandez-Robles & Daphne Gondhalekar. In this paper, the effects of anaerobic co-digestion at household level with waste activated sludge…
Research Article // Assessing the Nexus on Local Perspective: A Quali-Quantitative Framework for Water-Energy-Food Security Evaluation in Neglected Territories
By Rita de Cássia Santos de Souza, Ana Paula Dias Turetta, Michelle Bonatti & Stefan Sieber. This study presents a case study about a typical…
Special Issue // Rethinking the Urban Nexus
Introduction by Patience Mguni & Bas J.M. van Vliet. This Special Issue of the Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences brings together three…
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.
Urban Nexus // Demonstrating the Urban NEXUS Approach to Link Water, Energy and Food Resources in Schools in Tanzania
By generating cross-institutional collaboration for infrastructure systems and services at schools in the Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam, the…
Study // Operationalizing the Urban Nexus: Towards resource-efficient and integrated cities and metropolitan regions
published by the German Development Cooperation and ICLEI. This study on “Operationalizing the Urban NEXUS: Towards resource-efficient and integrated…
News // How to Make Cities Resilient With the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
By Cornelia Forsthuber. While the case for the FWE nexus concept is relatively clear to make in a theoretical, academic context, translating it to…
News // For Near East and North Africa, the water, energy and food security nexus is crucial
FAO’s Director-General highlights the region’s vulnerability to the impacts of the climate crisis at FAO Regional Conference for the Near East.
Policy Brief // Promoting Human-Centric Technologies and the Urban Nexus to address the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Sustainability Challenges of Smart Cities
By Ghadah Aldabbagh, Nikos Dimitriou, Jauad el Kharraz, Hammou Laamrani, Kamal Tumi, Daniela Diegelmann, Majed Mohammed Mustafa Hallawani, Abdullah M…
Project // CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
CRUNCH will demonstrate how the urban Food-Water-Energy Nexus can strengthen urban resilience through creating an interconnected knowledge platform…
Research Article // Synergetic management of water-energy-food nexus system and GHG emissions under multiple uncertainties: An inexact fractional fuzzy chance constraint programming method
By Ye Xu and colleagues. In this study, an inexact fractional fuzzy chance constraint programming (IFFCCP) method has been developed to provide…
Job Vacancy // National Irrigation and Water Sector Expert
This consultancy position is based at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Ukraine, and is open only to Ukraine…
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,…