Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Climate Change in Cities

Lira Luz Benites Lazaro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Lira is visiting researcher at Durham Energy Institute and the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, UK. She holds a master’s and PhD in Latin America integration from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a second PhD in Earth system science at the National Institute for Space Research – INPE, Brazil. Lira develops research on the political and social dimensions of climate change, responses of social actors regarding climate change, corporate social responsibility, climate policy analysis, energy policy analysis, water-energy-food nexus security, and governance. Her areas of research include social sciences and interdisciplinary perspectives. Her most recent research projects examined the governance of water-energy-food nexus with a focus on biofuels.Leandro Luiz Giatti is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He has international expertise in sustainability and health, health promotion, participatory research approaches, and urban water-energy-food nexus. His experience is characterized through interdisciplinary studies and with the main efforts dedicated to socioenvironmental vulnerable groups, also with studies in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Giatti is a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP and associate editor of the journal Ambiente & Sociedade (SCIELO – Brazil). During his academic research projects, he has advised theses and dissertations of graduate students and has also supervised postdoctoral partners.Laura S. Valente de Macedo is a research fellow at the Global Cities Center of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo (IEA-USP). She is also a fellow at the Center for Studies on Infrastructure and EnvironmentalSolutions (CEISA) of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGVEAESP) in Brazil, where she also undertook postdoctoral research on urban green and blue infrastructure and the food-water-energy nexus. With an extensive career in environmental policies, she has held senior advisory or executive positions in both state and federal government departments since 1991. From 2002 to 2011, she was ICLEI’s regional director for Latin America, leading projects in a wide range of sustainability policies and management issues, such as climate change mitigation, green public procurement, and urban resilience. Ms. Macedo also lectured on sustainable consumption, cities, and climate change and collaborated as co-author and editor in numerous publications. She has a PhD and an MSc in environmental science from the University of São Paulo (USP), and an MSc in environmental change from the University of Oxford as a Chevening scholar. Before her career in the environmental field, she was a practicing architect in São Paulo.Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE) in Brazil and a Visiting Fudan Chair Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy. He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research projects, particularly involving the developing world. He has over 20 years of experience in universities, businesses, think tanks, and governmental and international agencies in research, teaching, training, and academic management. His research and policy interests concentrate on themes around sustainable development, studying the patterns of governance, institution building, and policy implementation at different levels, and looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to governance and action. He holds a PhD in planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

• Chapter 1. WEF nexus  in cities: Opportunities for innovations to achieve sustainable development goals in the face of climate change.- Chapter 2. The importance of Water-Energy and Food Nexus in the promotion of Sustainable Cities in the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 3. What Can Cities Do to Enhance Water-Energy-Food Nexus as a Sustainable Development Strategy?.- Chapter 4. Water–Energy–Food nexus under climate change: analyzing different regional socio-ecological contexts in Brazil.- Chapter 5. How can the Water - Energy - Food Nexus approach contribute to enhancing the resilience of Amazonian cities to climate change?.- Chapter 6. The water-energy-food nexus and the micro-politics of everyday: a view from institutional bricolage.- Chapter 7. WEF Nexus Innovations: the institutional agenda for sustainability.- Chapter 8. Innovations towards 'the nexus' in the science-politics-society interface: What transformations do we really seek?.- Chapter 9. TheWater-Energy-Food Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: Priority Interconnections.- Chapter 10. Methods for evaluating Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Data Envelopment Analysis and Network Equilibrium Model approaches.- Chapter 11. Learning about the nexus from vulnerable urban communities.- Chapter 12. Urban gardens and composting: effective governance for strengthening urban resilience and community waste management.- Chapter 13. WEF Nexus and Sustainable Investments in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria.- Chapter 14. The Food-Water-Renewable Energy Nexus Resource-Security examples for Asian-Pacific cities.- Chapter 15. Urban Living Labs and the water-energy-food nexus: experiences from the GLOCULL Project in São Paulo, Brazil..- Chapter 16. The challenges of the food, water, and energy nexus and potential interlinkages with instruments to tackle climate change: cases of Brazilian cities.- Chapter 17. Food waste redistribution and implications for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of a food bank in Sao Paulo Municipality, Brazil.