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The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity

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  • Patricia Romero-Lankao

    (Patricia Romero-Lankao is at the NCAR Research Application Laboratory, Urban Futures, 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA)

  • Timon McPhearson

    (Timon McPhearson is at The New School's Urban Ecology Lab, 79 Fifth Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, New York 10003, USA)

  • Debra J. Davidson

    (515 General Services Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1, Canada)

Abstract

While tackling interdependencies among food, energy, and water security is promising, three fundamental challenges to effective operationalization need addressing: the feasibility of science-policy integration, cross-scale inequalities, and path-dependencies in infrastructure and socio-institutional practices.

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  • Patricia Romero-Lankao & Timon McPhearson & Debra J. Davidson, 2017. "The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 7(4), pages 233-235, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:7:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1038_nclimate3260
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3260
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