Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Climate Change in Cities

This book aims to contribute to the transdisciplinary study of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus in cities and to help policy makers adopt a more integrated approach to natural resources management in urban environments to face the challenges and threats of climate change. This approach is based on a multidimensional scientific framework that seeks to understand the complex and non-linear interrelationships and interdependencies between water-energy-food under climate change and to generate solutions to reduce trade-offs among development goals and generate co-benefits that help encourage sustainable development and contribute to the achievement of SDGs, mainly SDG 11 (make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) and SDG 13 (take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts). Governing the WEF nexus in cities is one of the greatest resource challenges of our time, as cities consume large amounts of WEF, but one that can also generate relevant alternatives with which to tackle climate change. To help fostering these alternatives, this book analyzes the governance, institutional and political economy factors that determine the effectiveness of the nexus approach and reviews the potential, the benefits and the policy implications of the adoption of the WEF nexus approach at the urban level. Through a series of hands-on cases, chapters in this book present the opportunities of the WEF nexus approach to achieve innovation and transformative change and discuss concrete areas of synergy and policy initiative to raise urban resilience.

Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Climate Change in Cities will serve both as a guide for policy makers as well as a useful resource for students and researchers in fields such as urban studies, public health, environmental sciences, energy studies and public policy interested in learning how cities can represent possibilities to navigate and manage sustainability from local to global.

Proposes ways to integrate water, energy and food management in urban areas to help cities cope with climate change Presents strategies to promote sustainable and participatory urban development to achieve UN's SDG 11 Brings together case studies showing how the water-energy-food nexus approach can be applied in practice

Auteur
Lira Luz Benites Lazaro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Lira is visiting researcher at Durham Energy Institute and the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, UK. She holds a master's and PhD in Latin America integration from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a second PhD in Earth system science at the National Institute for Space Research - INPE, Brazil. Lira develops research on the political and social dimensions of climate change, responses of social actors regarding climate change, corporate social responsibility, climate policy analysis, energy policy analysis, water-energy-food nexus security, and governance. Her areas of research include social sciences and interdisciplinary perspectives. Her most recent research projects examined the governance of water-energy-food nexus with a focus on biofuels.

Leandro Luiz Giatti is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He has international expertise in sustainability and health, health promotion, participatory research approaches, and urban water-energy-food nexus. His experience is characterized through interdisciplinary studies and with the main efforts dedicated to socioenvironmental vulnerable groups, also with studies in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Giatti is a member of the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP and associate editor of the journal Ambiente & Sociedade (SCIELO - Brazil). During his academic research projects, he has advised theses and dissertations of graduate students and has also supervised postdoctoral partners.

Laura S. Valente de Macedo is a research fellow at the Global Cities Center of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo (IEA-USP). She is also a fellow at the Center for Studies on Infrastructure and EnvironmentalSolutions (CEISA) of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGVEAESP) in Brazil, where she also undertook postdoctoral research on urban green and blue infrastructure and the food-water-energy nexus. With an extensive career in environmental policies, she has held senior advisory or executive positions in both state and federal government departments since 1991. From 2002 to 2011, she was ICLEI's regional director for Latin America, leading projects in a wide range of sustainability policies and management issues, such as climate change mitigation, green public procurement, and urban resilience. Ms. Macedo also lectured on sustainable consumption, cities, and climate change and collaborated as co-author and editor in numerous publications. She has a PhD and an MSc in environmental science from the University of São Paulo (USP), and an MSc in environmental change from the University of Oxford as a Chevening scholar. Before her career in the environmental field, she was a practicing architect in São Paulo.

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE) in Brazil and a Visiting Fudan Chair Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy. He has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research projects, particularly involving the developing world. He has over 20 years of experience in universities, businesses, think tanks, and governmental and international agencies in research, teaching, training, and academic management. His research and policy interests concentrate on themes around sustainable development, studying the patterns of governance, institution building, and policy implementation at different levels, and looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to governance and action. He holds a PhD in planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Contenu
Chapter 1. WEF nexus in cities: Opportunities for innovations to achieve sustainable development goals in the face of climate change.- Chapter 2. The importance of Water-Energy and Food Nexus in the promotion of Sustainable Cities in the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 3. What Can Cities Do to Enhance Water-Energy-Food Nexus as a Sustainable Development Strategy?.- Chapter 4. WaterEnergyFood nexus under climate change: analyzing different regional socio-ecological contexts in Brazil.- Chapter 5. How can the Water - Energy - Food Nexus approach contribute to enhancing the resilience of Amazonian cities to climate change?.- Chapter 6. The water-energy-food nexus and the micro-politics of everyday: a view from institutional bricolage.- Chapter 7. WEF Nexus Innovations: the institutional agenda for sustainability.- Chapter 8. Innovations towards 'the nexus' in the science-politics-society interface: What transformations do we really seek?.- Chapter 9. TheWater-Energy-Food Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: Priority Interconnections.- Chapter 10. Methods for evaluating Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Data Envelopment Analysis and Network Equilibrium Model approaches.- Chapter 11. Learning about the nexus from vulnerable urban communities.- Chapter 12. Urban gardens and composting: effective governance for strengthening urban resilience and community waste management.- Chapter 13. WEF Nexus and Sustainable Investments in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria.- Chapter 14. The Food-Water-Renewable Energy Nexus Resource-Security examples for Asian-Pacific cities.- Chapter 15. Urban Living Labs and the water-energy-food nexus: experiences from the GLOCULL Project in São Paulo, Brazil..- Chapter 16. The challenges of the food, water, and energy nexus and poten…