Integrated analysis of climate change, land-use, energy and water strategies

Howells, Mark; Hermann, Sebastian; Welsch, Manuel; Bazilian, Morgan; Segerström, Rebecka; Alfstad, Thomas; Gielen, Dolf; Rogner, Holger; Fischer, G.; Velthuizen, H.T. van; Wiberg, D.; Young, Charles A.; Roehrl, Richard Alexander; Mueller, Alexander; Steduto, Pasquale; Ramma, Indoomatee

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“…Bazilian et al 2011;Rothausen and Conway 2011;Scott et al 2011;Hoff 2011;Hermann et al 2012;Bizikova et al 2013;Howells et al 2013;Howells and Rogner 2014). The overall argument is that population growth and economic growth 'put significant pressure on energy, water and food demands with growing trade-offs among these three development goals; and will accelerate ecosystem degradation' (The Water Energy and Food Security Resource Platform 2012).…”

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“…Clancy et al 2002;Hoff 2011;Iguchi et al 2014;Kitamura et al 2014;Wallace et al 2014). This has even resulted in the development of an advanced modelling framework on the climate, land (including food), energy and water nexus aimed at making specific and localised recommendations for policy-makers (Howells et al 2013). This framework has been applied to several pilot countries, including Mauritius and Burkina Faso (Bazilian et al 2011;Howells et al 2013;UNDESA 2014a).…”

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“…This has even resulted in the development of an advanced modelling framework on the climate, land (including food), energy and water nexus aimed at making specific and localised recommendations for policy-makers (Howells et al 2013). This framework has been applied to several pilot countries, including Mauritius and Burkina Faso (Bazilian et al 2011;Howells et al 2013;UNDESA 2014a). Also the Global Sustainable Development Report aims for this model to eventually capture all Sustainable Development Goals and in that manner will broaden its usage and application in sustainable development (UNDESA 2014a, p. 88).…”

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Cross-sectoral strategies in global sustainability governance: towards a nexus approach

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The recent shift from the Millennium Development Goals to the much broader Sustainable Development Goals has given further impetus to the debate on the nexus between the multiple sectors of policy-making that the Goals are to cover. The key message in this debate is that different domains-for instance, water, energy and food-are interconnected and can thus not be effectively resolved unless they are addressed as being fully interrelated and interdependent. Yet while this overall narrative is forcefully supported in the new UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are the main part of this agenda, many Goals still remain sectoral in their basic outlook. This now requires, we argue, a new focus in both policy and research on the nexus between different Sustainable Development Goals, especially with a view to reforms in the overall institutional setting that is required to sufficiently support such a nexus approach. This article thus examines the nexus approach in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and identifies multiple avenues for its institutionalisation in global governance.

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Section: The Nexus Between Policy Domainsmentioning

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“…Previous nexus studies have concentrated on global interdependencies 17 , problem framing 18 or case studies of specific systems such as islands 19 and irrigation and hydropower production 20 . Here, we examine southern Africa's nexus from the perspective of climate and modify Hoff 's nexus framework 11 , which integrates global trends (drivers) with fields of action, to highlight the role of climate as a driver (Fig.…”

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Climate and southern Africa's water–energy–food nexus

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“…It has also been defined a "security" nexus, as access to all three elements must The ultimate goal for analysing the connections between water, energy and food, and highlighting the potential areas for conflict, trade-offs and synergies, is to guide policy-making towards integrated solutions and approaches to resource use [12,13,[18][19][20]. For example, a EWFN approach can dismantle the logical basis of policies that, in order to ensure food security, heavily subsidize electricity for pumping ground water for irrigation.…”

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Overcoming Food Security Challenges within an Energy/Water/Food Nexus (EWFN) Approach

2016

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Abstract:The challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050, in a context of constrained resources and growing environmental pressures posed by current food production methods on one side, and changing lifestyles and consequent shifts in dietary patterns on the other, exacerbated by the effects of climate change, has been defined as one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. The first step to achieve food security is to find a balance between the growing demand for food, and the limited production capacity. In order to do this three main pathways have been identified: employing sustainable production methods in agriculture, changing diets, and reducing waste in all stages of the food chain. The application of an energy, water and food nexus (EWFN) approach, which takes into account the interactions and connections between these three resources, and the synergies and trade-offs that arise from the way they are managed, is a prerequisite for the correct application of these pathways. This work discusses how Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) might be applicable for creating the evidence-base to foster such desired shifts in food production and consumption patterns.

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Integrated analysis of climate change, land-use, energy and water strategies

Cited by 521 publications

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Cross-sectoral strategies in global sustainability governance: towards a nexus approach

Cross-sectoral strategies in global sustainability governance: towards a nexus approach

Climate and southern Africa's water–energy–food nexus

Overcoming Food Security Challenges within an Energy/Water/Food Nexus (EWFN) Approach

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