Ecosystems
Online Event // Foro Virtual Nexo °7 - Oportunidades en la integración de la biodiversidad en el enfoque Nexo desde dos perspectivas en ALC: soluciones basadas en la naturaleza y fragmentación de los ríos para embalses
El tema principal del foro virtual nexo #7 cubre las soluciones basadas en la naturaleza y el impacto de las presas en los ecosistemas fluviales de…
Meeting // Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus Task Force under the Water Convention
The sixth meeting Task Force on the Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems Nexus will take place in the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 22nd and 23rd of…
Session at RGS 2018 // Who is Responsible for Integration? Responsibility in WEEF Nexus Governance
Integration is a both a goal and a challenge for nexus governance. Recent research on the implementation of policy instruments governing land use in…
Session at RGS 2018 // Operationalising an Ecosystem Approach for NEXUS Governance: The Case of Natural Resources Wales
The water-energy-food-environment nexus presents a significant governance challenge; representing a Gordian knot of entangled challenges, scales,…
Session at RGS 2018 // Landscaping Ecosystem Services – A Landscape-Nexus Approach: Meaning, Narrative and Integration
This talk will present work that builds on and extends recent research arguing that landscape, both conceptually and functionally, acts as a…
SWWW 2018 Event // MENA Focus - Benefits for Ecosystems and Wetlands through the Nexus
In the Mediterranean, wetlands are among its richest ecosystems, providing exceptional value and services including water purification, flood…
SWWW 2018 Panel // Using Information Tools on Multifunctional Nature-based Solutions to Achieve SDGs
The implementation of the water- and interrelated SDGs calls for joint action by various stakeholder groups empowered by the provision of data,…
Water-Food Nexus // Course on "Wetlands, integrated water resources management and food security"
Wetlands play an essential role in supporting food security, in making water resources management sustainable and in adapting to climate change…
Water-Migration Nexus Side Event at UNFCC // Water Stress and Human Mobility: Freshwater Solutions for Resilience and Peacebuilding
The side event aims at contributing to and presenting the work of the Task Force on Displacement created at COP21 to develop recommendations for…
Scholarship // Graduate Research Assistants (Food-energy-water systems (FEWS))
The Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) has openings for two graduate students…
Constructed Wetlands // The Role of Constructed Wetlands for Biomass Production within the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus
By Tamara Avellán, Reza Ardakanian, Paul Gremillion. The use of constructed wetlands for water pollution control has a long standing tradition in…
Publication // The Development of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus as a Framework for Achieving Resource Security: A Review
By Gareth B. Simpson and Graham P. W. Jewitt. This paper presents a study of the evolution of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus since its rise to…
Publication // Assessing River Basin Development Given Water-Energy-Food-Environment Interdependencies
By Robel Geressu, Christian Siderius, Julien J. Harou, Japhet Kashaigili, Laetitia Pettinotti and Declan Conway. The authors apply a multisector…
What on Earth are Ecosystem Services? // Nexus Seminar on the Concepts, Methods, and Challenges
The idea that nature provides benefits supporting human well-being has been there since time immemorial. With the growing awareness that these…
The Hindu // "Drain it, lose it," says new wetlands economics report
A major report that will help countries understand the economic value of inland wetlands, which cover a vast area of the earth's land surface and…