ABSTRACT
The nexus concept has been formulated and has become widely used in analytical and practitioner’s communities at least since the Bonn Conference 2011 and work at the Transatlantic Academy in 2011–2012, in response to the predominant single-resource "silo" thinking. This chapter defines the resource nexus as a set of context-specific critical interlinkages between two or more natural resources used as inputs into systems providing essential services to humans, such as water, energy, and food. It includes a symposium which took place in London in March 2015, debating various aspects of the resource nexus and refining the concept. Nexus terminology is increasingly popular, and possibly at risk of becoming a 'buzzword' as a recent editorial in Nature suggests. Clearly, nexus research comes with inter- and transdisciplinary agenda. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
