Overview
- Highlights with case studies from around the World, importance of the water-energy-food nexus
- Presents details on The Food-Energy-Water-Nexus in a post growth economy
- Discusses the Reflections about the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus in a World without Economic Growth – A Dynamic Multinational CGE Model-Based Thought Experiment
- Deals with Integrated Watershed Management vis-a-vis Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Water, Energy and Food are the very basic necessities of human life and all the three of them are interconnected with each other, this connection being called the Water-Energy-Food nexus. Water is an inevitable element to energy and food systems to work. Water is essential for the growth of crops and produce energy and it consumes a lot of energy to treat and move water. Food and energy are equally dependent upon each other as well. This book highlights with various examples and case studies from around the World, the importance of this concept.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 95 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Water–Energy–Food Nexus
Book Subtitle: Concept and Assessments
Editors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0239-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0238-2Published: 03 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0241-2Published: 03 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0239-9Published: 02 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 216
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Food Science, Water, general, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Environmental and Sustainability Education