Sentence examples for resource nexus from inspiring English sources

CGEP Scholar Dr. Tim Boersma and others examine the resource nexus debate in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and outline a vision for future nexus research and SDG delivery.

The brewing giant SABMiller is attempting to make business decisions through a resource nexus lens, and recently highlighted, through a valuation study of malting barley in Rajasthan, the need for better approaches to handling trade-offs between water, energy and food and the company.

These include: moving from niches and demonstration projects to broader norms; addressing reductions targets and indicators to guide policy and action; including policy design reflecting complexities such as time-lags, the resource nexus, and positive feedback loops; global resource governance; and convergence pathways between over-consuming and under-consuming societies.

Open image in new window Fig. 1 The global resource nexus.

In the future, the global resource nexus will likely put all countries under stress.

Note that the mechanisms above are close to these indicators, though our scope is closer on the resource nexus.

This introduction to the special issue 'Mining Temporalities: Extractive Industries and the Politics of Time' examines contemporary debates regarding the time-resource extraction nexus.

By incorporating opportunities into a whole systems approach for design and planning, biorefineries will be able to balance nexus resource trade-offs, deliver their potential for full exploitation of biomass as the only source of renewable carbon and materials, and translate nexus issues into social welfare and sustainable development.

Current biorefineries producing first generation biofuels from food crops have impacted nexus resources, most notoriously land and food but also water and fossil energy resources required during cultivation and processing.

Cross-sectoral effects especially among all three nexus resources have only recently been accounted for and predominantly exist in the form of non-formalized statements of intent.

When building integrated mathematical models, care must be taken to consider waste treatment not as an independent process unaffected by the FWEN, but as a core component of the FWEN, connected to all nexus resources and systems.