1st Edition

Food, Energy and Water Sustainability Emergent Governance Strategies

278 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management. This volume presents a diversity of collaborations between various governance actors in the management of the... Read more

1. An Introduction to Food-Energy-Water nexus thinking and Sustainability Governance

Laura M. Pereira and Caitlin A. McElroy

2. Securing Food, Energy, and Water in India: Shifting the governance landscape to tackle socio-economic challenges through integrated policies

Melissa M. Rohde

3. The evolution of the narrative of corn in Mexico from impediment to progress, to a commodity and as heritage

Alexandra Littaye

4. Historical Path Dependencies and Energy governance in post-apartheid South Africa

Agostino Inguscio

5. Water for Energy in China

Xiawei Liao, Jim Hall and Nick Eyre

6. The case of Peruvian asparagus: water governance trade-offs under climate change

Swathi Veeravalli

7. Water Markets and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus in Australia

Michael Valli and Alexandra M. Girard

8. Institutional bricolage to address sustainability challenges in the South African sugarcane industry: a case study of the SUSFARMS® initiative in the Midlands area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Jessica Cockburn, Vaughan Koopman, Laura Pereira and Jaci van Niekerk

9. Corporate Water Risk and Return

Alex Money

10. Natural resource management and Marine Protected Areas: the importance of balancing environmental sustainability and community support

Tomas Chaigneau

11. An Ontology of development in the Geopolitical North: Resource extraction in the Canadian Northwest Territories and the shift in indigenous experiences of nature.

Brice Perombelon

12. Bridging ICTs with governance capabilities for food-energy-water sustainability

Timothy Karpouzoglou, Laura Pereira and Samir Doshi

13. Out of sight, out of mind? Bringing the governance of mining and water risk into focus.

Caitlin McElroy

14. Conclusion

Laura Pereira, Alexandra Girard and Caitlin McElroy

Biography

Laura M. Pereira is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and a researcher at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Caitlin A. McElroy is a Departmental Research Lecturer at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK.

Alexandra Littaye is a researcher at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK.

Alexandra M. Girard is an independent researcher and consultant in environmental management and gender issues based in Sydney, Australia.