The Water-energy-food nexus: what the Brazilian research has to say

• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Fabiano de Araujo; Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Fontana, Michele Dalla; Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Malheiros, Tadeu Fabrício; Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Di Giulio, Gabriela Marques; Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Portal de Livros Abertos da USP
• Texto Completo: https://www.livrosabertos.abcd.usp.br/portaldelivrosUSP/catalog/book/817

The Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus represents, above all, a perspective, a way of looking at the world, the problems, the solutions, providing a view of the three main resource systems of food, water and energy, not in isolation, but as a system, with many and diverse cross-links between the subsystems. So, analytically speaking, it is a unifying concept, an antidote to the relentless pressures towards reductionism. Human society and its interactions with the natural environment form a dynamic socio-ecological system of such impressive complexity that reductionist approaches seem inevitable to make research and management on the subject viable. This development is not just an illusion - this book already presents some real examples of inter and transdisciplinary approaches, with the FWE nexus as a shared lens to better observe where problems occur and where sustainable solutions can be found.