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Water - Energy - Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities
A Global South Perspective
- 1st Edition - May 17, 2022
- Editors: Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi, Aidan Senzanje, Albert T. Modi, Graham Jewitt, Festo Massawe
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 2 2 3 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 8 3 7 - 4
Water–Energy–Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities: A Global South Perspective provides a knowledge synthesis on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus, focusing primari… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWater–Energy–Food Nexus Narratives and Resource Securities: A Global South Perspective provides a knowledge synthesis on the water–energy–food
(WEF) nexus, focusing primarily on the global south. By presenting concepts, analytical tools, and case studies, the book serves as a practical resource
for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in sustainability and functional roles across all three sectors. It addresses key issues related to data
availability, tools, indices, metrics, and application across multiple scales, beginning with a summary of existing knowledge. Finally, it examines the WEF
nexus, presents global insights, and discusses future considerations and implications. This book presents an overview of existing knowledge on the WEF
nexus and examines how such research aligns with emerging global WEF nexus perspectives, making it ideal for professionals, government entities,
private industry, and the general public.
- Offers a conceptual framework on how to better understand the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus and its utility in natural resource management and sustainable development
- Presents advanced analytical tools for the quantification of linkages, trade-offs, and synergies among WEF sectors
- Utilizes global case studies to illustrate complexities across disciplines, geographies, and scales
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. The water–energy–food nexus: its transition into a transformative approach
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The evolution of nexus planning
- 3. Benefits for adopting nexus planning
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 2. Some quantitative water–energy–food nexus analysis approaches and their data requirements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. WEF resource management tools
- 3. Alternative methodologies, approaches, and frameworks
- 4. Data challenges of quantitative nexus research
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. EO-WEF: a Earth Observations for Water, Energy, and Food nexus geotool for spatial data visualization and generation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Method
- 3. Capability of EO-WEF for generating data for the different sectors of the Songwe nexus
- 4. Further development
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Scales of application of the WEF nexus approach
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The local scale: household to subnational
- 3. The national scale
- 4. Higher-level nexus studies
- 5. Spatial interactions in the nexus
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Tools and indices for WEF nexus analysis
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tools and approaches to analyze the WEF nexus
- 3. Indices for WEF nexus performance assessment (analysis)
- 4. Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Transboundary WEF nexus analysis: a case study of the Songwe River Basin
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Case study description
- 3. Conclusions
- Chapter 7. Applying the WEF nexus at a local level: a focus on catchment level
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methodology and data
- 3. Progress with WEF nexus application at catchment level
- 4. Way forward and conclusion
- Chapter 8. A regional approach to implementing the WEF nexus: a case study of the Southern African Development Community
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fostering water, energy, and food security nexus dialogue and multi-sector investment in the SADC region project
- 3. Key planning, policy, and legal documents that are relevant for water, energy, and food security in the SADC region
- 4. Identified challenges related to the water–energy–food nexus approach in the SADC region
- 5. Operationalizing the WEF nexus in Southern Africa
- 6. Key lessons from the implementation of the SADC WEF nexus regional dialogues project
- 7. Summary and conclusions
- Chapter 9. Exploring the contribution of Tugwi-Mukosi Dam toward water, energy, and food security
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The WEF linkage conceptual framework
- 3. Tugwi-Mukosi Dam
- 4. Contribution of Tugwi-Mukosi toward water, energy, and food security
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Summary and conclusion and policy implications
- Conflict of interest
- Funding
- Chapter 10. The water–energy–food nexus as an approach for achieving sustainable development goals 2 (food), 6 (water), and 7 (energy)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The SDGs dimensions and the WEF nexus
- 3. Food and nutrition security
- 4. Synergies and trade-offs in the WEF nexus
- 5. Drivers of the WEF nexus toward achievement of SDGs 2, 6, and 7
- 6. Upscaling and outscaling the WEF nexus as a natural resources management tool for attaining SDGs 2, 6, and 7
- 7. Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Enhancing sustainable human and environmental health through nexus planning
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Linking socioecological interactions with nexus planning
- 3. Understanding the risk posed by wildlife on human health
- 4. Modeling multisector and complex systems
- 5. Calculating WHEN nexus indices for South Africa
- 6. Understanding the integrated health indices
- 7. Recommendations
- 8. Conclusions
- Chapter 12. Financing WEF nexus projects: perspectives from interdisciplinary and multidimensional research challenges
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The interlinkages within nexus research
- 3. Transboundary systems and the need for interdisciplinary spaces
- 4. Role of funding in fostering interdisciplinary dialogue
- 5. Shared value within multidimensional challenges
- 6. The challenge of goal setting
- 7. Advancing nexus research
- 8. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 13. The Water–Energy–Food nexus as a rallying point for sustainable development: emerging lessons from South and Southeast Asia
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A critical review into the WEF of South and Southeast Asia
- 3. Case study: WEF in Malaysia
- 4. Critical findings and key take-home messages
- Nomenclature
- Chapter 14. The water–energy–food nexus: an ecosystems and anthropocentric perspective
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Approach
- 3. WEF case studies: MENA and Latin America
- 4. Comparisons of the WEF nexus in MENA and Latin America
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter 15. Water–energy–food nexus approaches to facilitate smallholder agricultural technology adoption in Africa
- 1. Introduction
- 2. African context
- 3. Literature review
- 4. Farmer technology adoption
- 5. Research designs for incorporating a priori assessment
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 16. Building capacity for upscaling the WEF nexus and guiding transformational change in Africa
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Status of WEF nexus research in Africa
- 3. Development of a conceptual framework for WEF nexus upscaling and capacity development
- 4. Capacity development for upscaling and uptake of WEF nexus
- 5. Conclusion
- Chapter 17. WEF nexus narratives: toward sustainable resource security
- 1. The WEF nexus
- 2. Key messages
- 3. Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 17, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323912235
- eBook ISBN: 9780323918374
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Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi
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Aidan Senzanje
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Albert T. Modi
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Graham Jewitt
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