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List of contents
1. An Introduction to Food-Energy-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 change 7. Water Markets and the Food-Water-Energy 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 nature. 12. Bridging ICTs with governance capabilities for food-energy-water sustainability 13. Out of sight, out of mind? Bringing the governance of mining and water risk into focus 14. Conclusion
About the author
Laura M. Pereira is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and a researcher at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Caitlin A. McElroy is a Departmental Research Lecturer at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment and the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK.
Alexandra Littaye is a researcher at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK.
Alexandra M. Girard is an independent researcher and consultant in environmental management and gender issues based in Sydney, Australia.
Summary
This volume presents the growing diversity of collaborations formed between various governance actors and analyses these emergent governance structures’ ability to cope with the complexity of future challenges across food-energy-water systems as both separate sectors and an integrated nexus.
