The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

• Main Author: Brears, Robert C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Environmental management.; Environmental economics.; Environmental policy.; Environmental geography.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Economics.; Environmental Policy.; Environmental Geography.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.

This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy. Despite rising demand for water, energy and food globally, the governance of water-energy-food sectors has gen...

Table of Contents:

• 1. introduction
• 2. The Green Economy
• 3. The Green Economy and Sustainable Development
• 4. Policy Tools to Reduce Water-Energy-Food Nexus Pressure
• 5. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in New York City
• 6. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Singapore
• 7. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Massachusetts
• 8. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Ontario
• 9. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Denmark
• 10. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Korea
• 11. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Colorado River Basin
• 12. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Murray-Darling River
• 13. The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Rhine River Basin
• 14. Best Practices
• 15. Conclusions.