Urban Nexus
Urban Nexus // Stairways to Heaven: The Urban Nexus in Lima
By Adriana Allen. Held at the Nexus Network Urban Nexus Workshop, 12-13 May 2016. In the informal settlements on the edges of cities like Lima, a…
Urban Nexus // "Nexus is about to become mainstream"
The third regional workshop on "Integrated Resource Management in Asian cities: the Urban Nexus" took place from 25-27 June, 2014 in Da Nang, Viet…
Publication // The making of a sustainable food city in Barcelona: insights from the water, energy, and food urban nexus
By Moises Covarrubias and Ingrid Boas. This paper examines the making of urban sustainable food provisioning through the case of Barcelona. The…
The Urban Water-Energy-Food Nexus // Three Mini Case Studies
By Robert C. Brears. With rising demand for water, energy, and food, leading cities and water utilities have created synergies between the…
Publication // A 40-year review of food–energy–water nexus literature and its application to the urban scale
By Newell, J. P., Goldstein, B., & Foster, A. (2019). What research exists to date on the FEW nexus? How have scholars conceptualized these…
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…
Water Supply in Southeast Asia // "Water is life, contaminated water might mean death"
By Ruth Erlbeck. 2.1 billion (3 in 10) people worldwide lack access to safe, readily available water, 4.5 billion (6 in 10) people worldwide lack…
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…
Making Sense of the Urban Nexus // An Integrated Approach to Intersecting Challenges
By Giulia Salvaterra and Michael Woodbridge. Cities are sites of complex and intersecting challenges which threaten the success of the global…
Job Vacancy // Postdoctoral Position: Resilience and vulnerability at the urban nexus of food, water, energy and the environment
A postdoctoral candidate with strong social science background and proven training and research interests in urban studies, social practices or…
Project // Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities: The Urban Nexus
In the framework of this project up to ten selected cities in six Asian countries will be supported with a view to nexus-compliant integrated…
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…
Slides // City Profiling & Benchmarking The Urban Nexus
By Constanze Heydkamp, Fraunhofer Insitute for Industrial Engineering IAO, at Third Regional Workshop on Integrated Resource Management in Asian…
University of Sussex // SPRU project to investigate resilience and vulnerability at the urban Nexus
Three SPRU researchers; Professor Fiona Marshall, Dr Saurabh Arora and Dr Ralitsa Hiteva, have been awarded a grant by the ESRC for a project…
Urban Nexus // The water-energy-food nexus: An integration agenda and implications for urban governance
By Francesa Artioli, Michele Acuto and Jenny McArthur. This paper aims to ‘urbanise' the nexus agenda and consider the implications of policy…