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The Water, Food, Energy and
Climate Nexus
Challenges and an agenda for action
Edited by Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram
Series: Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
With a foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales
Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the
rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on
water, food and energy. Added to this is the growing threat of
climate change which will have huge impacts on water and food
availability. It is increasingly clear that there is no place in an
interlinked world for isolated solutions aimed at just one sector. In
recent years the "nexus" has emerged as a powerful concept to
capture these inter-linkages of resources and is now a key feature
of policy-making.
This book is one of the first to provide a broad overview of both
the science behind the nexus and the implications for policies and
sustainable development. It brings together contributions by
leading intergovernmental and governmental officials, industry,
scientists and other stakeholder thinkers who are working to
develop the approaches to the Nexus of water-food-energy and
climate. It represents a major synthesis and state-of-the-art
assessment of the Nexus by major players, in light of the adoption
by the United Nations of the new Sustainable Development Goals
and Targets in 2015.
Felix Dodds is a Senior Affiliate of the Water Institute and a
Senior Fellow at the Global Research Institute at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is also an Associate Fellow
at the Tellus Institute, and was the Executive Director of the
Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future from 1992 to 2012.
He is author or editor of several books on sustainable
development and resource security.
Jamie Bartram is a Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished
Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and
Director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, USA. He is the author or editor of numerous
academic papers and books, including the Routledge Handbook
of Water and Heath (2015).
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram
Part 1: Learning from the Past, Building a New Future: Nexus Scientific Research
1. History of the Nexus at the Intergovernmental Level
Felix Dodds and Jamie Bartram
2. Sustainable Development Goals and Policy Integration in the Nexus
David Leblanc
3. Nexus Scientific Research: Theory and Approach Serving Sustainable Development
Joachim von Braun and Alisher Mirzabaev
4. Global Risks and Opportunities in Food, Energy, Environment and Water to 2050
R. Quentin Grafton
5. Stewardship of Ecosystems
Tony Allan and Nathanial Matthews
Part 2: Urban Challenges of the Nexus: Local and Global Perspectives
6. The Contribution of Innovation in Urban Resilience and Sustainability to Realising the Urban Nexus
Nicholas You
7. Operationalizing the Urban NEXUS: Increasing the Productivity of Cities and Urbanized Nations
Kathrine Brekke and Jeb Brugmann
8. The Confederacy of Experts: The Crushing Nexus of Silos, Systems, Arrogance and Irrational Certainty
Gary Lawrence
Part 3: Natural Resource Security for People: Water, Food and Energy
9. Water-Food-Energy-Climate: Strengthening the Weak Links in the Nexus
Ania Grobicki
10. Natural Resource Security in an Uncertain World
Sylvia Lee
Part 4: Nexus Perspectives: Energy: Water and Climate
11. The Nexus in Small Island Developing States
Liz Thompson
12. Renewable Energy: Nexus-friendly Pathways for Growth
Frank Wouters and Divyam Nagpal
13. The Challenge of Climate Change in the Energy-Water Nexus
Diego Rodriguez, Anna Delgado Martin and Antonia Sohns
Part 5: Nexus Perspectives: Food, Water, and Climate
14. Smallholder Farmers are at the Nexus of Post-2015 Development Issues
Iain MacGillivray
15. Green Opportunities for Urban Sanitation Challenges through Energy, Water and Nutrient Recovery
Pay Drechsel and Munir A. Hanjra
Part 6: Nexus Corporate Stewardship: How Business is Improving Resource Use
16. Building Partnerships for Resilience
David Norman and Stuart Orr
17. Capital Markets at the Nexus of Sustainable Development
Steve Waygood
18. Principles for the Integration of the Nexus within Business
Felix Dodds and Cole Simons
Index

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