Part I Framing the Nexus
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Structure of the Book
1.2 Why food, energy, and water?
1.3 Systems science
1.4 Integrating systems
1.5 Scientific challenges at the nexus
1.6 Human challenges at the nexus
Chapter 2. Demographics, Supply, Demand and Sustainable Development Goals
1.1 Demographics and geography
1.2 Evolving demands for food, energy, and water
1.3 Geographical variations and their consequences
1.4 Sustainable Development Goals 1.5 The nexus and implementation of the SDGs
Chapter 3. Ecosystems at the Nexus
3.1 Introduction to ecosystem services
3.2 Valuing ecosystems and ecosystem services
3.3 Relationship to sustainable development goals (SDGs)
3.4 Case study: Erosion and agriculture
Chapter 4. Infrastructure
4.1. Introduction to Infrastructure Integration
4.2. Hard and Soft Infrastructures
4.3. Infrastructure Networks
4.4. Cascading Failures
4.5. Case Studies: Energy, Water, Food
Chapter 5. Climate
5.1. Climate change basics
5.2. Climate change stress at the nexus: Slow systemic changes, extreme events, cascading effects, climate risks at different scales
5.3. Climate modelling and the nexus
5.4. Climate policies vs. nexus policies
5.5. Climate adaptation strategies
Chapter 6. Economics
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Economic aspects of the nexus (demand & supply; rebound effect; non-market valuation)
6.3. Transferring results
6.4.
About the Author:
Peter Saundry is an Adjunct Professor of Energy at Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow at the National Council for Science and Environment where he was Executive Director (1993-2016). He is also a consultant on science and policy integration, energy and climate policy development, and federal funding for energy and climate research and development. His PhD is in Physics from the University of Southern California, and was an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow for the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. Senate.
Ben Ruddell is currently a Professor in and the Director of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, the President of Ruddell Environmental consulting, Chief Science Officer for Criticality Sciences Inc., and the Director of the FEWSION project. His PhD is in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona (Water Resources practice). His professional goals are the advancement of the science and management of complex systems, and excellence in education in a university setting.
