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Improved water, energy, and food security on a global level can be achieved through a nexus approach [17] —an approach that integrates management and governance across sectors and scales. [18] A nexus approach can support the transition to a green economy, which aims, among other things, at resource use efficiency and greater policy coherence ...
The Humanitarian-Development Nexus is the concept of increased collaboration between organizations working in short term humanitarian aid and long term international development promoted since 2016. [1] [2] The concept is supported by European governments, but has been met with both praise and criticism by humanitarian practitioners.
The Nexus Tools Platform or NTP is a web-based inventory platform that allows an interactive comparison of environmental models in a statistical way. Developed by the UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), [1] the platform helps a user to analyze existing modelling tools related to environmental resource management and associated nexus ...
The Humanitarian Cluster System is a system, used by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to coordinate multi-agency responses to large humanitarian emergencies.
While UNU was formally inaugurated in 1975, UNU-FLORES was founded on 20 December 2012. The founding director of UNU-FLORES was Prof. Reza Ardakanian of Iran. Prior to his directorship, Ardakanian was the Director of the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development since 2007, and was Vice-Rector of UNU in Europe, ad interim (2009–2011).
Hybrid Sankey diagram of 2011 U.S. interconnected water and energy flows. The water-energy nexus is the relationship between the water used for energy production, [1] including both electricity and sources of fuel such as oil and natural gas, and the energy consumed to extract, purify, deliver, heat/cool, treat and dispose of water (and wastewater) sometimes referred to as the energy intensity ...
Winford Masanjala published books and articles over the years in his career as an academician. in 2008 he published Rough and lonely road to prosperity: a reexamination of the sources of growth in Africa using Bayesian model averaging, [5] The poverty-HIV/AIDS nexus in Africa: a livelihood approach [6] in 2007, Cash crop liberalization and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Malawi [7 ...
Following the recommendations of an independent Humanitarian Response Review in 2005, the cluster approach was adopted in 2005 as a way of addressing gaps and strengthening the effectiveness of humanitarian response through building partnerships. The IASC clustered similar humanitarian organizations and appointed lead agencies for each.