The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity

Patricia Romero-Lankao (), Timon McPhearson and Debra J. Davidson
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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

Nature Climate Change, 2017, vol. 7, issue 4, 233-235

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.

Date: 2017
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