Exorcising Malthusian ghosts: Vaccinating the Nexus to advance integrated water, energy and food resource resilience
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Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus interactions vary from seemingly negative and intractable wicked problems to opportunities for enhanced sustainability. The aim of this paper is review the current state understanding on WEF resource provide a roadmap enhance integrated management. A qualitative perspective based expert insight experience was supported by more quantitative systematic analysis literature define interactions, describe nature different challenges, explore factors that influence them. We found associated (e.g. trade-offs synergies), with complexity spatial temporal scale, biases in research culture act as barriers progress. An interdisciplinary approach needed develop technical solutions employed through use orchestrated shocks historic analogues, predictive modelling, experimentation, scenario planning) “Vaccinate Nexus” improve system resilience. To achieve this, multidisciplinary capability should be developed solve while protecting specialism. It recognised embracing “Nexus (or Systems) Thinking”, future integration management may facilitated holistic education, informed research, ingrained cross-sector policy governance. • Water, Energy Food exploitation complex system. scale. System can Integrated skills challenges. Governance, education must adopt an approach.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current research in environmental sustainability
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2666-0490']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2021.100108