The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific

This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Southeast Asia. Individual chapters of this book provide interesting nexus dimensions of the region and explore socioeconomic implications of the nexus approach with a special focus on the cross-cutting issues, including climate change, gender, and trans-boundary cooperation. It also discusses innovative approaches, advanced nexus solutions, and various future scenarios. Finally, it suggests that an improved nexus understanding based on scientific evidence is a key element to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

With explosive population growth and economic development, countries in East and Southeast Asia are witnessing competitive consumption of WEF resources across various sectors and across borders. The diverse range of geographical, political, and economic conditions combined with climatechange and urbanization is posing a new set of challenges in the region. The long-term security of WEF, therefore, would need an integrated nexus approach through an enhanced understanding how the interactions between WEF resources are shaped by environmental, economic, social, and political changes in the region.

This book is a highly recommended source of information and inspiration for policy makers, research communities and practitioners dealing with any aspect of water, energy, and food security in East and Southeast Asia.

Explores some future scenarios and opens a new question to best deal with future challenges Opens with introduction and sub-regional overview, offering rationale of the regional approach Introduces complex links between water, energy, and food security This book is Open Access which means that there is free and unlimited access to the content

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Chapter 1. An Overview of the Water, Energy, and Food Nexus in East and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 2. Status of Water Security in East and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 3. State of Energy Security in East and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 4. Status of Food Security in East and Southeast Asia .- Chapter 5. Water-Food Nexus in East and Southeast Asia .- Chapter 6. Varying Interactions among the Water, Energy and Food Nexus across East and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 7. Water, Energy, and Food Nexus: Review of Thailand's Resource Security.- Chapter 8. Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Urban-Rural Relationship.- Chapter 9. Interlinkage between the Agriculture and Water Sectors and Climate Change Impacts in East and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 10. Multidisciplinary and Inter-sectoral Collaborations in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Examples from Japan and Thailand.- Chapter 11. Current Status and Challenges of Water, Energy, and Food in China and Resource Sharing through International Trades.- Chapter 12. Water and Gender: Putting Women at the Centre of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus.- Chapter 13. Regional Partnership to Achieve Water Security: The Role of the UNESCO Water Family in Asia and the Pacific.- Chapter 14. The Nexus as an Entry Point for Achieving Long-Term Security, Sustainability, and Peace.- Chapter 15. Addressing Nexus Challenges Innovative Approaches to Urban Nexus Security.- Chapter 16. Healthy Citizens, Peaceful Societies and a Healthier Planet.- Annex I. Supplementary Figures and Tables for Chapter 1.- Annex II. Supplementary Tables and Figures for Chapter 6. <p