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Making the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus work: Framing the boundaries of resource flows

Sustainability (Switzerland), ISSN: 2071-1050, Vol: 9, Issue: 10
2017
  • 37
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 116
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 17
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    37
    • Citation Indexes
      36
    • Policy Citations
      1
      • Policy Citation
        1
  • Captures
    116
  • Social Media
    17
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      17
      • Facebook
        17

Article Description

The Sustainable Development Goals have placed integrated resources management, such as integrated water resource management, at the heart of their targets. The upcoming "International Decade for Action-Water for Sustainable Development", 2018-2028 has highlighted the importance of promoting efficient water usage at all levels, taking into account the water, food, energy, and environmental nexus. While integrated resource management approaches have been defined and applied for decades, nexus approaches are more recent. For these latter approaches to be implemented on the ground, their system boundaries need to be clarified. While the Water-Energy-Food Nexus focuses on sectors, the Water-Soil-Waste Nexus addresses linkages between environmental resources-namely water, soil and waste-to tackle sustainable management. In this paper, we analyzed integrated management systems and how their system boundaries are defined. From this we determined that in order for system boundaries to be applicable, they should be clear, wide and flexible. Based on this, we propose the boundary of theWater-Soil-Waste Nexus system. We use two case studies to exemplify the usefulness of these system boundaries.

Bibliographic Details

Tamara Avellán; Mario Roidt; Adam Emmer; Janis von Koerber; Petra Schneider; Wolf Raber

MDPI AG

Social Sciences; Energy; Environmental Science

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