The Water, Food, Energy and Climate Nexus
Challenges and an agenda for action
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 implica…
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Weitere Autoren: Bartram, Jamie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-27784-2
- EAN: 9781317277842
- Produktnummer: 20178970
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'031 KB
- Abbildungen: 36 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 31 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
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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