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The Food-Energy-Water Nexus [electronic resource] / edited by Peter Saundry, Benjamin L. Ruddell.

Contributor(s): Saundry, Peter [editor.] | Ruddell, Benjamin L [editor.] | SpringerLink (Online service)Material type: Text

TextSeries: AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences SeriesPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020Edition: 1st ed. 2020Description: XVI, 688 p. 102 illus., 68 illus. in color. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783030299149Subject(s): Environmental management | Environmental education | Energy systems | Ecology | Environmental Management | Environmental and Sustainability Education | Energy Systems | Ecology | Water Policy/Water Governance/Water ManagementAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 333.7 LOC classification: GE300-350Online resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

Part1: Framing the Nexus -- Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Demographics, Supply, Demand and Sustainable Development Goals -- Chapter3. Ecosystems at the Nexus -- Chapter4. Infrastructure -- Chapter5. Climate -- Chapter6. Economics -- Part2: Scientific Tools at the Nexus -- Chapter7. Questions and Scales -- Chapter8. Metrics -- Chapter9. Data -- Chapter10. Modeling -- Chapter11. Computing -- Chapter12. Questions and Scales revisited -- Part3: Human dimensions -- Chapter13. Human Behavior and Adaptation -- Chapter14. Conflict, Mediation, and Dispute Resolution -- Chapter15. Global and International Policy and Law -- Chapter16. U.S. Policy and Law -- Part4: Two Approaches to the Nexus -- Chapter17. Cities -- Chapter18. Watersheds.

In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This book provides a substantive integrated introduction to the food-energy-water nexus suitable for use in higher level undergraduate and graduate level courses and for scholars moving into the field of nexus studies without a strong background in all three areas and the many aspects of nexus studies. The book will include little or no mathematical equations. The book's references/bibliography is a significant resource to those initiating deeper studies. In recent years, the world has seen a dramatic rise in interdisciplinary energy and environmental courses and degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In the US for instance, the number and variety of such programs has increased significantly over the past decade.

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This book provides a substantive integrated introduction to the food-energy-water nexus suitable for use in higher level undergraduate and graduate level courses and for scholars moving into the field of nexus studies without a strong background in all three areas and the many aspects of nexus studies. The book will include little or no mathematical equations. The book's references/bibliography is a significant resource to those initiating deeper studies. In recent years, the world has seen a dramatic rise in interdisciplinary energy and environmental courses and degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In the US for instance, the number and variety of such programs has increased significantly over the past decade.

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