Ethics, Sustainability and the Water, Energy, Food Nexus Approach – A New Integrated Assessment of Urban Systems
| Autor: | Holger Schlör, Karin Schürmann, Jürgen-Friedrich Hake, Sandra Venghaus |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Ethics
Index (economics) Operationalization business.industry 020209 energy Environmental resource management Climate change Citizen journalism 02 engineering and technology sustainability Energy(all) Order (exchange) Political science Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering green economy metrics ddc:620 business Nexus (standard) Air quality index nexus |
| Zdroj: | Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier, Energy procedia 88, 236-242 (2016). doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2016.06.155 CUE2015-Applied Energy Symposium and Summit 2015: Low carbon cities and urban energy systems. Energy procedia 88, 236-242 (2016). doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2016.06.155 |
| ISSN: | 1876-6102 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.06.155 |
| Popis: | Current global developments put increasing ecological, economic and social pressures on urban systems. The density of urban areas concentrates these pressures especially on water, energy and food (i.e., the nexus) resources as if in a ‘burning glass’. The integrated assessment approach is used to frame, study and solve issues such as climate change, water and air quality, land and public health challenges, which are at the core of the nexus approach. To meet these targets, in the last few decades a wide array of assessment tools has been developed. Most of these approaches, however, pursue national or at best regional perspectives and only rudimentarily provide for considerations of local effects. In our integrated assessment approach based on the Nexus City Index we combine an ethical derivation with participatory and accounting tools to grasp and operationalize the complexity of urban areas from a bottom-up and top-down perspective in order to derive a holistic picture of the nexus challenges in urban areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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