ABSTRACT
In November 2011 the German government held a very ambitious global conference on the Nexus between Food, Water and Energy. It resulted in a growing recognition that what is needed is a movement away from a sectorby-sector approach to policy, science and practice, towards a more interlinked approach. The 2012 Rio+20 conference confi rmed this need by agreeing that a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) should be negotiated, and that they should refl ect the much more complex world in which we now live. This book builds on these events and is a direct result of a second conference on the Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus, which was held in March 2014 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The book draws together some of the major thinking that has already begun to address some very challenging predictions that will frame the world we live in over the next fi fteen years.
