Boundary Science: Re-imagining Water-Energy-Food Interactions in the Context of a Data Light Approach to Monitoring the Environment- Development Nexus

Discusses the need to reorient research to better achieve SGD mandates, to address sustainable development

Mathew Kurian (Author), Yu Kojima (Author)

9780323884730, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 12 May 2021

176 pages, 15 illustrations (5 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 1.3 cm, 0.39 kg

Boundary Science and the Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Lessons from Global Public Goods Research on the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus addresses the problem of how global research can reorient itself to better address sustainable goals and objectives through the use of place-based observatories that support multi-dimensional modelling. The book will provide an overview of the impact of case studies and field trials in addressing critical questions of poverty reduction and sustainable development. This discussion will be followed by an examination of a theoretical framework for boundary science that elaborates upon the Nexus approach to environmental management.

1. Why Boundary Science? 2. Blind Spots in Environmental Governance 3. A data light approach to monitoring the environment-development Nexus 4. Experiential learning via environmental backcasting: How open-access platforms can promote multidimensional modelling through multiple sites of engagement

Subject Areas: The environment [RN]