Overview
- Explores some future scenarios and opens a new question to best deal with future challenges
- Opens with introduction and sub-regional overview, offering rationale of the regional approach
- Introduces complex links between water, energy, and food security
- This book is Open Access which means that there is free and unlimited access to the content
Part of the book series: Water Security in a New World (WSEC)
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About this book
This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Southeast Asia. Individual chapters of this book provide interesting nexus dimensions of the region and explore socioeconomic implications of the nexus approach with a special focus on the cross-cutting issues, including climate change, gender, and trans-boundary cooperation. It also discusses innovative approaches, advanced nexus solutions, and various future scenarios. Finally, it suggests that an improved nexus understanding based on scientific evidence is a key element to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
With explosive population growth and economic development, countries in East and Southeast Asia are witnessing competitive consumption of WEF resources across various sectors and across borders. The diverse range of geographical, political, and economic conditions combined with climatechange and urbanization is posing a new set of challenges in the region. The long-term security of WEF, therefore, would need an integrated nexus approach through an enhanced understanding how the interactions between WEF resources are shaped by environmental, economic, social, and political changes in the region.
This book is a highly recommended source of information and inspiration for policy makers, research communities and practitioners dealing with any aspect of water, energy, and food security in East and Southeast Asia.
Keywords
- Water-energy and food security
- East and Southeast Asia
- Climate change impacts
- Environment, economy, transboundary
- Gender and urbanization
- Open access
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
Book Subtitle: East and Southeast Asia
Editors: Eunhee Lee, Benno Böer, Lawrence Surendra, Jong Ahn Chun, Makoto Taniguchi
Series Title: Water Security in a New World
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12494-5Due: 25 November 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12497-6Due: 25 November 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12495-2Due: 25 November 2024
Series ISSN: 2367-4008
Series E-ISSN: 2367-4016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour