Food-Water-Energy Nexus (FEW 2016)

The Food-Water-Energy Nexus / Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) is a joint call by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge.

The call seeks to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The rapid urbanization of the world’s population underscores the importance of this focus. International partners are invited to develop solutions for this challenge.

Theme1

Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments.

Theme 2

Multi-level Governance and Management of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus.

Theme 3

Managing Potential Strategies and Solutions to address emerging Risk and Tradeoffs at the intersection of Sustainable Urbanisation and the FWE Nexus.

Funding Agencies:

MINCyT(Argentina), FFG(Austria), FWO(Belgium), Innoviris(Belgium), FAPESP(Brazil), RPF(Cyprus), ANR(France), BMBF(Germany), JST(Japan), VIAA(Latvia), NOW(Netherlands), RCN(Norway), NCN(Poland), QNRF(Qatar), UEFISCDI(Romania), ARRS(Slovenia), Formas(Sweden), Swedish Energy Agency(Sweden), NSTC(Taiwan), TÜBİTAK (Türkiye), AHRC / ESRC / Innovate UK(UK), NSF(USA)

More information:

https://belmontforum.org/cras#nexus2016

Taiwan's Action:

(CRUNCH) Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices: operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Shang-Lien Lo
(National Taiwan University)

(METABOLIC) Intelligent Urban Metabolic Systems for Green Cities of Tomorrow: an FWE Nexus-based Approach

Fi-John Chang(LEAD)
(National Taiwan University)

(IFWEN) Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities

Wan-yu Shih(Ming Chuan University)

(Vertical Green 2.0) Vertical greening for liveable cities – innovation to facilitate the breakthrough of an old concept

Chung-Kee Yeh(National Taiwan University)

Belmont Forum Program Office, NSTC

Center for Sustainability Science,

Academia Sinica,

No. 128, Sec. 2, Academia Road, Taipei, 115201 Taiwan

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