Governing the Nexus for Sustainability

• Authors: Sina Marx
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This report summarizes the challenges of and requirements for effective governance of the water, energy and food nexus. With global dynamics such as climate change, urbanization and changing consumption patterns, governing resources in a coherent manner becomes both more complex and more relevant for sustainable development. Governance challenges include nexus economics (costs and benefits of different approaches to resource management), institutional design (like questions of how decision-making should be best distributed) and good governance (how to make sure that nexus governance adheres to certain agreed upon principles and values). In terms of economics, a balance between sector specific actions and nexus governance is required. For effective decision-making it is important that power among different institutions is both distributed and coordinated. Good nexus governance requires targets that can be monitored to make sure that basic principles are followed and to examine whether progress toward sustainable development is being made.

Keywords

EN

Nexus; Governance; Water; Energy; Food

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2015-01-01

received

2014-07-08

accepted

2015-09-30

online

2015-12-17

Contributors

author

Sina Marx

• Research Associate, Global Water System Project International Project Office, Germany

References

• [1] Global Water System Project, Call to Action for Implementing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus, International Conference Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Synergies and Tradeoffs: Governance and Tools at various Scales (Bonn, Germany, 19 - 20 May 2014).

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/cass-2015-0008