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The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity

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While tackling interdependencies among food, energy, and water security is promising, three fundamental challenges to effective operationalization need addressing: the feasibility of science-policy integration, cross-scale inequalities, and path-dependencies in infrastructure and socio-institutional practices.

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  1. Patricia Romero-Lankao is at the NCAR Research Application Laboratory, Urban Futures, 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA,

    Patricia Romero-Lankao

  2. Timon McPhearson is at The New School's Urban Ecology Lab, 79 Fifth Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, New York 10003, USA,

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  3. Debra J. Davidson is at the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, 515 General Services Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1, Canada,

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Romero-Lankao, P., McPhearson, T. & Davidson, D. The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity. Nature Clim Change 7, 233–235 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3260

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