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What works at the nexus? Conference on 27 Nov 2014, London
Join us at the first Nexus Network conference: ‘What works at the nexus? New connections in food, energy, water and environment‘ on Thursday 27 November from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm. This is an opportunity for network members to meet, hear high-profile keynote speakers, discuss nexus challenges from a variety of perspectives, and find out […]
The what, why and how of the nexus: contribute your thoughts
A team led by Kit Macleod from the James Hutton Institute would like to draw on your experiences and perspectives on the why, what and how of nexus approaches for understanding linkages within and across water, energy, food and environment. This will contribute to the Systems Thinking in Environment-People Science nexus thinkpiece. The team are […]
Can you suggest literature on transdisciplinary nexus research?
Frances Harris and Fergus Lyon are writing a Nexus Network thinkpiece which will be published in the Autumn and are looking for more suggestions of research to draw on. Frances says We are conducting a review of literature for the Nexus Network on food, energy, water and the environment. The review concerns the processes of […]
How the relationships between food, energy and water apply across the world
Andrew Scott, research fellow at the ODI, explains in this short film from the ODI, how the relationships between food, energy and water apply across the world. The nexus is a concept that tries to capture the interdependencies between the water, energy and food sectors; recognising that the use of water for agriculture and […]
Can the nexus help meet the sustainable development goals?
Can the nexus concept help to galvanise new discussions and insights about development and the environment? Or might the terminology of the nexus risk obscuring the inherently political nature of questions about how resources are used, who decides, and who benefits or loses from these allocations? Around 80 people from research, business and civil society […]
Sustainable development and the nexus – short film
Professor Melissa Leach, Director of the Institute of Development Studies talks about the nexus and sustainable development. Many thanks to the Overseas Development Institute for the film. Melissa Leach says If we’re to build development approaches that reduce poverty, we have to integrate sustainability into them. Sustainability isn’t just about environment, it’s also about economy […]
Improving decisions at the food, water, energy and environment nexus: values and valuation
Workshop announcement. Our production of and decisions regarding food, water, energy and the natural environment are bound together in a nexus of interdependencies. This means that decisions regarding say the use of land for food production inevitably impact upon all other elements of this nexus. The numerous trade-offs involved in both business and government decisions […]
Need for better engagement with social science
A research paper on the need for better engagement with social science approaches to tackle environmental change is published in the latest issue of Nature Climate Change (Volume:4, Pages:763–768, 2014, doi:10.1038/nclimate2339). The authors argue that Calls for more broad-based, integrated, useful knowledge now abound in the world of global environmental change science. They evidence […]
Successful thinkpieces announced
We are delighted to announce that 13 applications to the Nexus Network thinkpiece call of June 2014 have been selected for funding. The selected thinkpieces will tackle issues from the governance of the nexus; energy, food and water security in West Africa; impact investing; fast-moving circular goods; citizen science and imagining a sewerless society. The […]
Nexus Network: first advisory group meeting 8 July 2014
Blog by Ruth Welters. On Tuesday 8 July 2014, I went to the first meeting of the Nexus Network advisory group, in London. It was great to meet many people from the advisory group and to see how enthusiastic people are about Nexus issues. The advisory group chair is Martin Cooke, from ANGLE management services […]