The water-energy-food nexus: what the Brazilian research has to say

Moreira, Fabiano de Araújo (ed.)

Dalla Fontana, Michele (ed.)

Malheiros, Tadeu Fabrício (ed.)

Di Giulio, Gabriela Marques (ed.)

Faculdade de Saúde Pública da USP

2022

291 p.

Inglês

NEXO ÁGUA-ENERGIA-ALIMENTO

DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL

GERENCIAMENTO DE RECURSOS

BRASIL

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The Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus represents, above all, a perspective, a way of looking at the world, the problems, the solutions, providing a view of the three main resource systems of food, water and energy, not in isolation, but as a system, with many and diverse cross-links between the subsystems. So, analytically speaking, it is a unifying concept, an antidote to the relentless pressures towards reductionism. Human society and its interactions with the natural environment form a dynamic socio-ecological system of such impressive complexity that reductionist approaches seem inevitable to make research and management on the subject viable. This development is not just an illusion - this book already presents some real examples of inter and transdisciplinary approaches, with the FWE nexus as a shared lens to better observe where problems occur and where sustainable solutions can be found.

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