The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus shows why water, energy and food cannot be governed effectively as separate systems. It explains how integrated policy can create synergies, reduce damaging trade-offs and align resource security with a greener economy.
The book compares fiscal and non-fiscal tools and follows their use from cities and states to national and regional institutions. Cases spanning San Francisco, Singapore, Massachusetts, Scotland, Canada, Denmark, the Murray-Darling Basin and the Rhine demonstrate how governance choices change across scales and contexts.
For planners, resource managers, policymakers, businesses, civil-society organisations, researchers and students, it offers a practical account of how nexus thinking can inform real decisions rather than remain an abstract principle.
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