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Resources, Services and RisksInstitutions and the Nexus Approach

Resources, Services and Risks: Institutions and the Nexus Approach [This chapter draws upon three published case studies covering different aspects of water, soil, and waste management to discuss issues that are crucial to an improved understanding of the nexus approach to management of environmental resources. Based on previous research, we identified three questions that can guide the discussion on the nexus approach (Kurian and Ardakanian in Governing the nexus: water, soil and waste resources considering global change, UNU-Springer, Dordrecht, 2015). (1) Question of intersectionality: What are the critical mass of factors at the intersection of material fluxes, public financing and heterogeneity, and changes in institutional and biophysical environment that define environmental outcomes? (2) Question of interactionality: How can feedback loops be structured to capture both vertical and horizontal interactions between legal and policy reform, structural changes in economy and society, and variability in the biophysical environment? (3) Question of hybridity: What role can transdisciplinary methods play in supporting integrative analysis of biophysical and institutional processes that have a bearing on the use and management of environmental resources?] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
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© Copyright © United Nations University 2016. All rights reserved 2016
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978-3-319-28704-1
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5 –30
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10.1007/978-3-319-28706-5_2
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[This chapter draws upon three published case studies covering different aspects of water, soil, and waste management to discuss issues that are crucial to an improved understanding of the nexus approach to management of environmental resources. Based on previous research, we identified three questions that can guide the discussion on the nexus approach (Kurian and Ardakanian in Governing the nexus: water, soil and waste resources considering global change, UNU-Springer, Dordrecht, 2015). (1) Question of intersectionality: What are the critical mass of factors at the intersection of material fluxes, public financing and heterogeneity, and changes in institutional and biophysical environment that define environmental outcomes? (2) Question of interactionality: How can feedback loops be structured to capture both vertical and horizontal interactions between legal and policy reform, structural changes in economy and society, and variability in the biophysical environment? (3) Question of hybridity: What role can transdisciplinary methods play in supporting integrative analysis of biophysical and institutional processes that have a bearing on the use and management of environmental resources?]

Published: Jan 12, 2016

Keywords: Data; Monitoring; Environmental resources; Risks; Governance; Public services; Case studies; Nexus observatory; Index; Visualization; Benchmarking; Scenario analysis; Trade-offs

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