Capacity-Building and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Rethinking Integration in the Asia-Pacific [Hardcover]

1. Introduction

2. The water-energy-food nexus: striving to create a pathway to promote integration

3. Looking through a capacity-building lens to understand the WEF nexus

4. Examining the WEF in practice through green transitions: a case study across

India, China and Japan

5. Benefits of nexus thinking to realise the sustainable development goals (SDGs)

6. From theory to practice: the future trajectory of the WEF concept

Maureen Papas is Honorary Research Fellow, Law School at the University of Western Australia.

This book looks at whether nexus thinking offers a systematic approach to combat global environmental problems and facilitate enhanced sustainable development.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.?

?Building effective and sustainable mechanisms to tackle environmental problems requires in-depth understanding of relationships between natural resources, going beyond conventional policy and siloed decision making. The water energy food nexus has been promoted as a conceptual framework and management tool to facilitate integrated planning and practical linkages to support sustainable development. The author opens this book with an overview of capacity building and reviews the significance of the water energy food nexus, bringing in links to the 2030 Agenda. Climate change is highlighted as a key consideration in any conversation about natural resource use and case studies from Japan, India and China are utilised to show that whist long-term sustainable development practices are being implemented the environmental challenges across the region raise concerns about institutional capacity, economic sustainability and flã<