1st Edition

Capacity-Building and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Rethinking Integration in the Asia-Pacific

By Maureen Papas Copyright 2024
122 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.   Building effective and sustainable mechanisms to tackle environmental problems requires in-depth understanding of relationships between natural resources, going beyond conventional policy and siloed decision making. The... Read more

1. Introduction

2. The water-energy-food nexus: striving to create a pathway to promote integration

3. Looking through a capacity-building lens to understand the WEF nexus

4. Examining the WEF in practice through green transitions: a case study across

India, China and Japan

5. Benefits of nexus thinking to realise the sustainable development goals (SDGs)

6. From theory to practice: the future trajectory of the WEF concept

Biography

Maureen Papas is Honorary Research Fellow, Law School at the University of Western Australia.