Framing the Water-energy Nexus for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Perception and Representation of the Resource Nexus at the Interface between Society and the Natural Environment

“…He also recognizes that globalization carries the risk of transferring stress, through externalization, from the most powerful countries to the more marginal ones. This same message is found in many papers dealing with the nexus [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. Examples are reported in Table 1.…”

“…Hence, it refers to the internal (re)organization of the institutions dealing with the nexus and the selection of effective procedures. In this regard, there is a general consensus in the literature on the need for more integration and coordination: vertical coordination between international and national administrations to focus on livelihood in order to protect local communities [35]; and horizontal coordination between international development partners to reduce the risk that actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals could later undermine one another [32]. This integration and The sphere of the external world becomes highly relevant when it forces a change in the other three spheres: (i) when it forces science to develop radically new approaches and narratives; (ii) when it forces institutions of governance to develop totally new mechanisms and to re-shuffle existing power relations; and (iii) when it forces society to re-discuss its very identity in order to adopt new (or old!)…”

“…Hence, it refers to the internal (re)organization of the institutions dealing with the nexus and the selection of effective procedures. In this regard, there is a general consensus in the literature on the need for more integration and coordination: vertical coordination between international and national administrations to focus on livelihood in order to protect local communities [35]; and horizontal coordination between international development partners to reduce the risk that actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals could later undermine one another [32]. This integration and coordination process has to be extended to policy fields [17,24,26], explicitly address the environment and future generations [20,24], and balance the different goals and interests of the parties using water-energy-food (WEF) resources [24,30].…”

“…[23] "The global human requirement for water, energy, and food is expected to increase substantially with the increase in world population that is projected to reach 9.6 billion by the middle of this century." [32] "Population growth is a major external stress on three primary resources: water, energy, and food." [30] …”

Anatomy of a buzzword: The emergence of ‘the water-energy-food nexus’ in UK natural resource debates

“…De Laurentiis et al, 2016;Lubega, William Naggaga, 2014;Rasul, 2014;Smajgl et al, 2016;Yumkella and Yillia, 2015). The burgeoning use of nexus terminology can be traced back to the World Economic Forum in 2008, where…”