Urban Nexus
Vacancy // Research Assistant at TU Berlin in SUGI Programme
Technical University (TU) Berlin, Faculty VI - Institute of Ecology/Ecohydrology and Landscape Evaluation, is looking for a research assistant for…
The Urban Nexus Workout // A Training Concept for Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities
The Berlin-based think tank adelphi has developed a modular-structured Urban Nexus training that promotes and institutionalises the Urban Nexus…
Project // Nexusing water, energy and food to increase resilience in the Cape Town metropolitan region
The project is part of the Merian Fund that encourages cooperation between Dutch and South Africa academic institutions and is funded by the NWO…
Job Vacancy // Student Co-worker at ILS Dortmund/Germany
The research group "Constructed Environment" of the ILS is looking for a co-worker at the location Dortmund in the third-party project "The FEW-meter…
Presentation // Nexus Message on Water-Energy-Food-Climate Through an Urban Lens
By Felix Dodds. Held at the HLPF Side event on "Addressing Resilience through the Nexus of Water-Food-Energy – Cities as SDG Laboratories", 17 July…
Integrated Resource Management // The Urban Nexus in Asian Cities
In the framework of the project up to ten selected cities in six Asian countries will be supported with a view to nexuscompliant integrated resource…
Documentation Kick Off Meeting // The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)
Researchers and project partners from the 15 projects funded in the JPI Urban Europe and Belmont Forum joint call “Sustainable urbanization global…
Urban Nexus // The Urban Nexuses of Social Injustice
By Dunu Roy. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. The present nexus of resource use is clearly unsustainable and unjust.…
Project // Food Water Energy for Urban Sustainable Environments (FUSE)
The FUSE consortium will help create implementable solutions to meet the urban-FWE challenge with a development path that is sustainable and adapted…
Nexus Blog // Solving Shared Problems at the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus
By Jie Zhuang, Frank Löffler, Gary Sayler, Guirui Yu, and Guibin Jiang. A 15-year-old partnership among Chinese and U.S. scientists studying…
Urban Nexus // A Nexus Approach for Sustainable Urban Energy-Water-Waste Systems Planning and Operation
By Xiaonan Wang, Miao Guo, Rembrandt H.E.M. Koppelaar, Koen Haziel van Dam, Charalampos P Triantafyllidis, and Nilay Shah. Energy, water and waste…
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…