Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Climate Change in Cities /

This book aims to contribute to the transdisciplinary study of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in cities and to help policy makers adopt a more integrated approach to natural resources management in urban environments to face the challenges and threats of climate change. This approach is based on...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Lazaro, Lira Luz Benites (Editor), Giatti, Leandro Luiz (Editor), Valente de Macedo, Laura S. (Editor), Puppim de Oliveira, Jose A. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Sustainable Development Goals Series,
Subjects:	Environmental sciences-Social aspects. Urban policy. Environmental management. Environmental health. Environmental Social Sciences. Urban Policy. Environmental Management. Environmental Health. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. WEF nexus in cities: Opportunities for innovations to achieve sustainable development goals in the face of climate change
Chapter 2. The importance of Water-Energy and Food Nexus in the promotion of Sustainable Cities in the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals
Chapter 3. What Can Cities Do to Enhance Water-Energy-Food Nexus as a Sustainable Development Strategy?
Chapter 4. Water-Energy-Food nexus under climate change: analyzing different regional socio-ecological contexts in Brazil
Chapter 5. How can the Water - Energy - Food Nexus approach contribute to enhancing the resilience of Amazonian cities to climate change?
Chapter 6. The water-energy-food nexus and the micro-politics of everyday: a view from institutional bricolage
Chapter 7. WEF Nexus Innovations: the institutional agenda for sustainability
Chapter 8. Innovations towards 'the nexus' in the science-politics-society interface: What transformations do we really seek?
Chapter 9. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: Priority Interconnections
Chapter 10. Methods for evaluating Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Data Envelopment Analysis and Network Equilibrium Model approaches
Chapter 11. Learning about the nexus from vulnerable urban communities
Chapter 12. Urban gardens and composting: effective governance for strengthening urban resilience and community waste management
Chapter 13. WEF Nexus and Sustainable Investments in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria
Chapter 14. The Food-Water-Renewable Energy Nexus Resource-Security examples for Asian-Pacific cities
Chapter 15. Urban Living Labs and the water-energy-food nexus: experiences from the GLOCULL Project in São Paulo, Brazil.
Chapter 16. The challenges of the food, water, and energy nexus and potential interlinkages with instruments to tackle climate change: cases of Brazilian cities
Chapter 17. Food waste redistribution and implications for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of a food bank in Sao Paulo Municipality, Brazil.