Sustainable Development and the Water Energy Nexus

2013 ◽  
pp. 24-31 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Energy Nexus

The Impact of the Water–Energy Nexus in Realizing Sustainable Access to Water and Energy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nkiruka Chidia Maduekwe ◽  
Cheri-Leigh Young
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Energy Services ◽  
Water Energy Nexus ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
The Impact

Access to water and energy have been identified as integral elements necessary to realizing sustainable development and the principal goal of poverty eradication as indicated in the SGD goals. These goals are especially relevant to the African continent, where many are still without access to safe, clean water, and energy. As it were, the provision of water and energy services are intricately connected; to provide water, energy is required, and vice versa. Against this background, the chapter examines African regional, sub-regional, and national legal frameworks and policies to ascertain whether they provide adequate platforms through which sustainable access to water and energy can be achieved and, conversely, whether these legal frameworks and policies impede sustainable access to water and energy. The chapter finds that to ensure sustainable access to water and energy, an integrated rather than individualistic approach might provide the requisite solution.

scholarly journals Design of an integration platform between the water-energy nexus and a business model applied for sustainable development

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 1398-1405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heba Ahmed Mosalam ◽  
Mohamed El-Barad
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Integration Platform ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Water Energy Nexus ◽  
New Generation

Abstract Setting out an international standard schema for the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus and providing accurate data with realistic reports for investment through a simple application is essential for our real world. This research presents a tool to help anyone who wants to invest in environmental projects, especially water, energy, or food projects. The user can directly connect to a database of environmental data applying WEF nexus principles. This paper is looking for a mechanism to apply the WEF nexus concept through a web-based platform implementing unified concepts and terminology, setting basic criteria and standards, and making the data available, consistent, and homogeneous. Based on the problem statement, the purpose of this research is to implement a cross-application for sustainable development, including WEF nexus concepts, taking into consideration the interlinkage between the three resources integrated with a business model or financial study for projects. In addition, we have determined organizational perspectives of WEF nexus, including government entities, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector, and consolidated all the concepts into one set of WEF standards. Increasing the awareness of WEF nexus will help to establish a new generation of researchers who believe in the WEF nexus concepts and who will coordinate with developers and expert consultants to convert the WEF standards to programming coding.

scholarly journals Water-energy nexus-based scenario analysis for sustainable development of Mumbai

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 104854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon De Stercke ◽  
Vaibhav Chaturvedi ◽  
Wouter Buytaert ◽  
Ana Mijic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Water Energy Nexus

Extended water-energy nexus contribution to environmentally-related sustainable development goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 111485
Author(s):  
Xue-Chao Wang ◽  
Peng Jiang ◽  
Lan Yang ◽  
Yee Van Fan ◽  
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Water Energy Nexus ◽  
Development Goals

scholarly journals Advancing the Implementation of SDGs in Brazil by Integrating Water-Energy Nexus and Legal Principles for Better Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila Carvalho ◽  
Catalina Spataru
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Energy Current ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Water Energy Nexus ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Functional Operation

<p><em>The close relationship between water, energy and sustainable development has been on the international political radar for some time.</em><em> </em><em>The multiple targets contained in the newly developed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) often crosscut and refer to more than one sustainable goal, suggesting the need to consider the potential for synergies and analyse the nature and extent of trade-offs. SDGs subscribe Brazil to new action targets that explicitly crosscut and refer to multiple goals and resources (e.g.</em><em>,</em><em> water, energy). Current work on indicators concluded Brazil should consider recognising and forging connections between goals but lacked to consider any synergies between water and energy (SDG6, SDG7). However, a challenge is that energy and water in Brazil are dependent and serve as input of each other but follow two different management approaches: electricity is centrally governed by the federal government (taking a top-down approach), while the water sector is polycentric (following a bottom-up approach). Such institutional and administrative differences create the potential for tensions in drawing these sectors together according to the principle of integration, in order to create an integrated and holistic approach to policy making, decision making and functional operation of the sectors. This potential for disconnection also leads to serious instances of environmental injustices. This study contributes to existing studies with a normative framework (sustainable development) from which to derive further sense of the relationship between water and energy; and provides the legal tools that informs the values (legal principles), which will support the development of ethical nexus regimes, so that the negotiation of outcomes between more coherent water and energy policies also promote fairness within their regimes.</em><em></em></p>

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