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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Research priorities for managing the impacts and dependencies of business upon food, energy, water and the environment
Sustainability Science, Volume 12, No. 2, Year 2017
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Delivering access to sufficient food, energy and water resources to ensure human wellbeing is a major concern for governments worldwide. However, it is crucial to account for the ‘nexus’ of interactions between these natural resources and the consequent implications for human wellbeing. The private sector has a critical role in driving positive change towards more sustainable nexus management and could reap considerable benefits from collaboration with researchers to devise solutions to some of the foremost sustainability challenges of today. Yet opportunities are missed because the private sector is rarely involved in the formulation of deliverable research priorities. We convened senior research scientists and influential business leaders to collaboratively identify the top forty questions that, if answered, would best help companies understand and manage their food-energy-water-environment nexus dependencies and impacts. Codification of the top order nexus themes highlighted research priorities around development of pragmatic yet credible tools that allow businesses to incorporate nexus interactions into their decision-making; demonstration of the business case for more sustainable nexus management; identification of the most effective levers for behaviour change; and understanding incentives or circumstances that allow individuals and businesses to take a leadership stance. Greater investment in the complex but productive relations between the private sector and research community will create deeper and more meaningful collaboration and cooperation. © 2016, The Author(s).
Authors & Co-Authors
Green, Jonathan M.H.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholm Environment Institute
Sutherland, William J.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Bell, Sarah Jayne
Unknown Affiliation
Benton, Tim Guy
United Kingdom, Leeds
University of Leeds
Butler, David B.
United Kingdom, Exeter
University of Exeter
Firbank, Les G.
United Kingdom, Leeds
University of Leeds
Gardner, Toby Alan
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholm Environment Institute
Hails, Rosemary S.
United Kingdom, Wallingford
Uk Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Koh, Lenny S.C.
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Sheffield University Management School
O'Riordan, Timothy
United Kingdom, Norwich
University of East Anglia
Raffaelli, Dave George
United Kingdom, York
University of York
Reyers, Belinda
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Srai, Jagjit Singh
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Strassburg, Bernardo Baeta Neves
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Vira, Bhaskar
United Kingdom, Cambridge
University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute
Statistics
Citations: 35
Authors: 15
Affiliations: 23
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s11625-016-0402-4
ISSN:
18624065
Research Areas
Environmental
Food Security
Health System And Policy