Overview
- Provides interdisciplinary treatment to the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus complex influence on social ecological systems
- Presents examples, case studies and tools including modeling and computing
- Provides introduction for environmental studies students
Part of the book series: AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series (AESS)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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About this book
This will be the first textbook on the integration of food, energy and water systems (FEWS). In recent years, the world has seen a dramatic rise in interdisciplinary energy and environmental courses and degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In the US for instance, the number and variety of such programs has increased significantly over the past decade, Simultaneously, national and international initiatives that integrate food, energy and water systems have been launched.
This textbook provides a substantive introduction to the food-energy-water nexus suitable for use in higher level undergraduate and graduate level courses and for scholars moving into the field of nexus studies without a strong background in all three areas and the many aspects of nexus studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Peter Saundry is an Adjunct Professor of Energy at Johns Hopkins University and Senior Fellow at the National Council for Science and Environment where he was Executive Director (1993-2016). He is also a consultant on science and policy integration, energy and climate policy development, and federal funding for energy and climate research and development. His PhD is in Physics from the University of Southern California, and was an American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow for the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. Senate.
Ben Ruddell is currently a Professor in and the Director of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, the President of Ruddell Environmental consulting, Chief Science Officer for Criticality Sciences Inc., and the Director of the FEWSION project. His PhD is in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona (Water Resources practice). His professional goals are the advancement of the science and management of complex systems, and excellence in education in a university setting.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Editors: Peter Saundry, Benjamin L. Ruddell
Series Title: AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29914-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29913-2Published: 07 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29916-3Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29914-9Published: 06 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-9787
Series E-ISSN: 2509-9795
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 688
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Energy Systems, Ecology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management