Climate, Energy and Water

Managing Trade-offs, Seizing Opportunities

Jamie Pittock, Karen Hussey, Stephen Dovers

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781107029163
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316308608
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

With the global population expected to reach nine billion by 2050, our capacity to provide enough food, water and energy relies on our understanding and management of the complex interdependencies in the climate-energy-water nexus. This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the interdependencies between these sectors and the knock-on consequences of those interactions for other sectors, such as food production and biodiversity conservation. The interdisciplinary nature of the book across the three sectors of climate, energy and water means that it will be valuable for advanced students, researchers and policymakers across a broad range of fields, including environmental/energy/water/climate policy, environmental economics, climate science, hydrology, ecology and geography.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Justifying, extending and applying "nexus" thinking in the quest for sustainable development
• 2 Water resources, climate change and energy
• 3 Implications of climate change for energy systems in a multisectoral context
• 4 Fossil fuels and water: A complex and evolving relationship
• 5 Renewable energy and water
• 6 Hydropower within the climate, energy and water nexus
• 7 Water and biofuels
• 8 Trade-offs and synergies between water and energy use in rural Australia
• 9 Management of the urban energy-water nexus
• 10 Managing the electricity-water nexus in China, France, India and the United States
• 11 Cross-sectoral governance of the climate, energy and water sectors: A 'Rubik's cube' analysis of cross-sectoral co-ordination
• 12 Regulation of the nexus
• 13 Climate, energy and water: the potential roles and limitations of markets
• 14 Strategies to mainstream climate change, energy, water and food security nexus knowledge and skills
• 15 A nexus of nexuses: systemic governance for climate response
• 16 Integrated modelling of the energy-water nexus in the American West
• 17 Biodiversity and the climate, energy and water nexus
• 18 Consumers, food supply chain and the nexus
• 19 Future prospects in climate, energy and water research and policy
• Index