Climate change: and the Water, Energy and Food Nexus

Last year, this blog looked at how the issues around water, energy and food are interlinked:
Futures Forum: The Water, Energy and Food Nexus

These have been brought into sharp focus by the issues around climate change:
Futures Forum: Climate change: and farming with less nitrogen
Futures Forum: Climate change: and taxing meat

A new report just out looks at this:

Improving responses to weather extremes 

The concept of the energy-food-water nexus captures interconnections, dependencies and linkages between production and use of environment, energy, food, and water resources. 

Interlinkages within the “nexus” of environment-energy-food-water resources raise challenges to decision making for stakeholders. 

Global challenges such as climate change exacerbate issues of resource scarcity, which transcend sectors, scale and geography. 

Academics, policy makers and practitioners can learn from each other to shape and build more resilient responses to climate and weather related shocks 

“Informing national and global responses to shocks to the energy-food-water-environmentnexus” 
Informing national and global responses to shocks tothe energy-food-water-environment nexus

And there are several studies on the subject:
Anatomy of a buzzword: The emergence of ‘the water-energy-food nexus’ in UK natural resource debates
Nexus-Shocks-Network-What-We-Are-Learning_CandiceH.pdf

See also:
NERC - Home
The Nexus Network
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