Water-Energy-Food Nexus

P. Abdul Salam, Sangam Shrestha, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, and Anil Kumar Anal Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

• Contributors  viiPreface ixAcronyms and Abbreviations xiSection I: Understanding the Nexus1 The Need for the Nexus Approach 3P. Abdul Salam, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Sangam Shrestha, and Anil Kumar Anal 2 Evolution of the Nexus as a Policy and Development Discourse 11Vishnu Prasad Pandey and Sangam Shrestha 3 The Nexus Contribution to Better Water Management and Its Limitations 21Mike Muller 4 Dynamic, Cross]Sectoral Analysis of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Investigating an Emerging Paradigm 31Alex Smajgl and John Ward5 Urban Nexus: An Integrated Approach for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 43Donovan Storey, Lorenzo Santucci, and Banashri Sinha Section II: Operationalizing the Nexus6 Modeling the Water]Energy]Food Nexus: A 7]Question Guideline 57Bassel Daher, Rabi H. Mohtar, Sang]Hyun Lee, and Amjad Assi 7 Water]Energy]Food Nexus: Selected Tools and Models in Practice 67Victor R. Shinde8 Governing for the Nexus: Empirical, Theoretical, and Normative Dimensions 77David Benson, Animesh K. Gain, Josselin Rouillard, and Carlo Giupponi 9 The Role of International Cooperation in Operationalizing the Nexus in Developing Countries: Emerging Lessons of the Nexus Observatory 89Kristin Meyer and Mathew Kurian10 Water]Energy]Food Security Nexus in the Eastern Nile Basin: Assessing the Potential of Transboundary Regional Cooperation 103Mohammad Al]Saidi, Nadir Ahmed Elagib, Lars Ribbe, Tatjana Schellenberg, Emma Roach, and Deniz Oezhan 11 Energy]Centric Operationalizing of the Nexus in Rural Areas: Cases from South Asia 117Parimita Mohanty and Satwik PatnaikSection III: Nexus in Practice12 The Water]Energy]Food Nexus from a South African Perspective 129Olusola O. Ololade, Surina Esterhuyse, and Audrey D. Levine 13 Water]Energy]Food Nexus: Examples from the USA 141Soni M. Pradhanang 14 WEF Nexus Cases from California with Climate Change Implication 151Qinqin Liu 15 Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in the West Asian Region 163Mohamed Abdel Hamyd Dawoud 16 Assessment of Water, Energy, and Carbon Footprints of Crop Production: A Case Study from Southeast Nepal 181Sangam Shrestha and Saroj Adhikari17 The Food]Water]Energy Nexus in Modern Rice Cultivation in Bangladesh and Competing Discourses of Rice Research Institutions 191Sophia Barkat and Zachary A. Smith18 Riverbank Filtration Technology at the Nexus of Water]Energy]Food 207Thomas B. Boving and Kavita Patil Section IV: Future of the Nexus Agenda19 Water]Energy]Food (WEF) Nexus and Sustainable Development 223Ashim Das Gupta Index 243