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re-imagining water-energy-food interactions in the context of a data ligh approach to monitoring the environment-development nexus
Boundary Science and the Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Lessons from Global Public Goods Research on the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus addresses the problem of how global research can reorient itself to better address sustainable goals and objectives through the use of place-based observatories that support multi-dimensional modelling.
Front Cover -- Boundary Science -- Boundary Science: Re-imagining Water-Energy-Food Interactions in the Context of a Data Light Approach to Monitoring the Environment-Development Nexus -- Copyright -- Contents -- Praise for Boundary Science -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 -- Why boundary science? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Re-imagining Water-Energy-Food (WEF) interactions in the context of a growing appreciation of coupled human-environment systems -- 3. Why behaviour matters in shaping environmental change processes? -- 4. Learning to learn: The framing challenge in sustainability research -- Shifting focus: physical scale versus governance boundary in conducting research -- How to handle missing information: Environmental planning, policy and delivery of public services -- Paradigm shift in scientific practice -- Place-based observatories-a tool for enhancing the policy orientation of sustainability research -- 5. What are boundary organizations?- Their architecture and scientific roles -- 6. Organization of the book -- Useful links -- References -- 2 -- Blind spots in environmental governance -- 1. Introduction -- Why randomized control trials are popular yet will fall short in terms of improving our understanding of env ... -- 2. Blind spots in environmental governance: Institutional fragmentation and the poverty-environment Nexus -- Keeping everyone happy: Challenges of distribution of interests and resources in the poverty-environment Nexus -- 3. Norms: Fiscal mechanisms, electoral systems and monitoring regimes -- What are norms? -- 4. Institutions: Water-energy-food (WEF) interactions, common property resources, agent-based modelling, social networks and t ... -- Why institutional analysis matters? -- What are institutions?.
Water-energy-food interactions: Failure to capture non-monotone, non-linear and recursive effects of institutions -- Common property resources and environmental conservation -- Gaps between theory and practice -- Agent-based modelling of water-energy-food interactions: Meta-data, integration and synthesis -- Social networks, rationality and bounded interactions: Structure, hierarchy and change -- The WEF Nexus: Framework integrating agency behaviour analysis for studying trade-offs in environmental governance -- 5. Organizations: Incrementalism, boundary spanning roles and feedback loops -- Incrementalism: Implications for modelling of environmental decision making -- Boundary spanning roles in boundary organizations -- A two-way dialogue -- Learning about feedback loops in the environment-development Nexus -- Feedback loops, modelling platforms and environmental back-casting -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- 3 -- A data light approach to monitoring the environment-development Nexus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What ails approaches for monitoring of water-energy-food interactions? -- The project format-a distorted picture -- Falling between the crack of public financial cycle: The donor-funded project cycle -- Capturing development impacts in sustainability research: How lessons from Results-based financing (RBF) can aid a Theory o ... -- 3. Methodological constructs of boundary science: Studying agency behaviour in the environment-development nexus -- Typology of trade-offs: Natural resource management versus public service delivery -- 4. Methodological construct 1: Typology of trade-offs -- A Typology 1-soil erosion control in Laos -- Assessing trade-offs between productivity and conservation under the privatization of property legislation -- B Typology 2-monitoring wastewater reuse for SDG 6.3.
Coupled model for benchmarking of regional achievement of global goals -- C Typology 3-monitoring access to safe water supply in rural Tanzania -- Assessing trade-offs between agricultural intensification and soil conservation -- D Typology 4-soil erosion in India -- Monitoring impact of social inequality on soil conservation outcomes -- E Typology 5-wastewater management under urbanization in India -- Valuation of climate adaptation outcomes for water reuse in secondary towns -- 5. Trade-off analysis: Implications for the study of institutional trajectories in the environment-development Nexus -- 6. Methodology construct 2: Composite index -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- 4 -- Experiential learning via environmental backcasting: How open-access platforms can promote multidimensional mod ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Open-access platform: assessment of institutional trajectories in the environment-development nexus -- Engineering citizen science -- Open-access platform: four key components -- Petal 1: framing success and failure in institutional analysis: the challenge of data valorization -- Petal 2 -- an open standards framework -- Petal 3 -- optimizing repetitive tasks in environmental research -- Petal 4 -- Pilot-testing of policy instruments to create political buy-in for research outputs -- 3. Towards a model of models: longitudinal learning at multiple sites -- The Belmont Forum research consortium on cyber-enabled disaster resilience: 2020-23 -- Horizon scanning (research design principles 4) -- Disaster resilience: horizon scanning (research design principle 1) -- Drought resilience: concept, typologies and indices (research design principle 3) -- Agent-based modelling and applications of the nexus framework for droughts (research design principle 4).
Methodological innovations: a regional focus of benchmarking and scenario analysis (research design principle 5) -- Research outcomes -- Linked databases (research design principle 7) -- Virtual learning environment (research design principles 2) -- Nexus repository (research design principle 8) -- Nexus laboratory (research design principle 6) -- Network effects in the global south (research design principle 8) -- A consortium approach: facilitating political engagement for robust monitoring (research design principle 8) -- Proposal writing workshop -- Proposal writing workshop -- Regional consultations -- Regional consultations -- Consortia that foster citizen science -- Consortia that foster citizen science -- 4. A room with two (blinkered) views -- 5. Environmental back-casting: re-theorizing the environment-development Nexus -- Foresight analysis or back-casting? -- Environmental back-casting and implications for the study of environmental policy and governance -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Epilogue -- REINSTATING MULTILATERALISM: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION -- Index -- Back Cover.