The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Complex Global Challenges

Governing the Nexus: Water, Soil and Waste Resources Considering Global Change

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 15-38

  Scott, Christopher A ^a   Kurian, Mathew ^b   Wescoat, James L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Anthropocene; Groundwater; Nexus; Nexus approach; Peri urban agriculture; Resilience; Resource recovery; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Wastewater reuse; Water energy food nexus; WEF nexus; World Commission on Dams

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOCENE; NEXUS; NEXUS APPROACH; PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURES; RESILIENCE; RESOURCE RECOVERY; WASTEWATER REUSE; WATER ENERGY; WEF NEXUS; WORLD COMMISSION ON DAMS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84956761467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05747-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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