Natural infrastructure investment and implications for the nexus: A global overview

Genevieve Bennett, Jan Cassin and Nathaniel Carroll

Ecosystem Services, 2016, vol. 17, issue C, 293-297

Abstract: As deeply interlinked challenges to water, energy, and food security appear poised to accelerate in the coming decades, interest has grown in landscape-based approaches to manage water–energy–food (W–E–F) nexus risks and trade-offs. Both engineered and “natural infrastructure” approaches are needed to increase productivity and resilience in W–E–F systems and to meet pressures of a growing global population and changing climate. However, to date little information exists about the use of nature-based solutions globally, the scale of present investment, funders' motives, or observed results.

Keywords: Watershed investment; Payments for watershed services; Natural infrastructure; Water–energy–food nexus; Payments for ecosystem services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.05.006

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