Managing the food, water, and energy nexus for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia

Environmental Development

Volumn 18, Issue , 2016, Pages 14-25

  Rasul, Golam ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Cross sectoral coordination; Food water energy nexus; Policy coherence; Policy framework; South Asia; Sustainable Development Goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966701558     PISSN: 22114645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2015.12.001     Document Type: Article

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