食糧、エネルギーと水資源の連鎖：学際的考察 The Food-Energy-Water Nexus (Aess Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series)

Saundry, Peter (EDT)/ Ruddell, Benjamin L. (EDT)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2020/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 688 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030299132
• DDC分類 628

Full Description

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.

Contents

Part1: Framing the Nexus.- Chapter1. Introduction.- Chapter2. Demographics, Supply, Demand and Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter3. Ecosystems at the Nexus.- Chapter4. Infrastructure.- Chapter5. Climate.- Chapter6. Economics.- Part2: Scientific Tools at the Nexus.- Chapter7. Questions and Scales.- Chapter8. Metrics.- Chapter9. Data.- Chapter10. Modeling.- Chapter11. Computing.- Chapter12. Questions and Scales revisited.- Part3: Human dimensions.- Chapter13. Human Behavior and Adaptation.- Chapter14. Conflict, Mediation, and Dispute Resolution.- Chapter15. Global and International Policy and Law.- Chapter16. U.S. Policy and Law.- Part4: Two Approaches to the Nexus.- Chapter17. Cities.- Chapter18. Watersheds.