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Interdependence, interactions, and linkages refers how variables in a system connect, influence, and depend on one another. Scientific fields, especially the social sciences, primarily analyze how a given variable is affected by one or many others.
A cross-impact analysis is an approach to determine how those interactions can affect future events or a way to visualize a system, qualitatively, semi-quantitatively, and quantitatively.
A nexus represents the interface of different sectors, areas, or relatively exclusive groups, like sectors in an economy, departments in a corporation, or disciplines in sustainable development (water, energy, etc.)
Causality is the effect of some variable(s) on some other variable(s). It seeks to answer what causesthe observed phenomena. Together with interdependence, interactions and linkages help us to understand small-scale causal linkages, another way to describe interconnections within a system. Most disciplines look at the small-scale...
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Daher, B., Zelinka, D. (2021). Water-Energy-Food Interconnections: Methods, Tools, and Cross-Sectoral Decision Making. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_113-1
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