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Author Pereira, Laura M

Title Food, Energy and Water Sustainability : Emergent Governance Strategies
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 An introduction to foodâ#x80;#x93;energyâ#x80;#x93;water nexus thinking and sustainability governance -- 2 Securing Food, Energy, and Water in India: shifting the governance landscape to tackle socio-economic challenges through integrated policies -- 3 The evolution of the narrative of corn in Mexico: from impediment to progress, to a commodity and as heritage -- 4 Historical path dependencies and energy governance in post-Apartheid South Africa -- 5 Water for energy in China
6 The case of Peruvian asparagus: water governance trade-offs under climate change7 Water markets and the foodâ#x80;#x93;energyâ#x80;#x93;water nexus in Australia -- 8 Institutional bricolage to address sustainability challenges in the South African sugarcane industry: a case study of the SUSFARMS ® initiative in the Midlands area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa -- 9 Corporate water risk and return -- 10 Natural resource management and marine protected areas: the importance of balancing environmental sustainability and community support
11 An ontology of development in the geopolitical North: resource extraction in the Canadian Northwest Territories and the shift in Indigenous experiences of nature12 Bridging ICTs with governance capabilities for foodâ#x80;#x93;energyâ#x80;#x93;water sustainability -- 13 Out of sight, out of mind? Bringing the governance of mining and water risk into focus -- 14 Conclusion
Summary Societies around the world face an increasingly uncertain future as social and ecological changes create pressure on resource governance, and this uncertainty calls for new models that illuminate the intersections of civil society, public sector, and private sector resource management. This volume presents a diversity of collaborations between various governance actors in the management of the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus. It analyses the ability of emergent governance structures to cope with the complexity of future challenges across FEW systems. Divided into two sections, chapters in the first half of the book present a collection of case studies from around the world exemplifying how FEW nexus challenges are addressed in a multitude of ways and by a variety of actors. Chapters in the second half offer broader perspectives on the management of FEW and underline the lessons that emerge from applying a FEW lens to the question of natural resource governance. The varied examples in this book highlight that the management of FEW is often a question of reinventing, adapting, and building upon existing practices. Such practices are deeply embedded in unique socio-cultural, environmental, and political contexts as well as 'hard' infrastructures. Most of all, this edited volume seeks to communicate the wealth of ideas from committed individuals who continue to work to improve natural resource governance and our sustainable futures
Subject Environmental management -- Case studies
Food security -- Case studies
Water security -- Case studies
Energy security -- Case studies
Conservation of natural resources -- Case studies
Natural resources -- Management -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Conservation of natural resources.
Energy security.
Environmental management.
Food security.
Natural resources -- Management.
Water security.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author McElroy, Caitlin
Littaye, Alexandra
Girard, Alexandra M
ISBN 9781315696522
1315696525