Global trends such as urbanization, demographic and climate change that are currently underway pose serious challenges to sustainable development and integrated resources management. The complex relations between demands, resource availability and quality and financial and physical constraints can be addressed by knowledge based policies and reform of professional practice. The nexus approach recognizes the urgent need for this knowledge and its interpretation in a policy- relevant setting that is guided by the understanding that there is a lack of blueprints for development based on integrated management of water, soil and waste resources in the Member States. Generation and application of knowledge is both a priority for individual but also institutional capacity development.

This book provides a conceptual framework for discussing the nexus approach to environmental governance, discusses key science-policy challenges relating to the nexus approach and uses selected case studies to explore use of the nexus approach in integrated management of water, soil and waste resources.

Contents
Part I Global Change and the Nexus Approach to Management of Environmental Resources

1 The Nexus Approach to Governance of Environmental Resources Considering Global Change

2 The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Complex Global Challenges

3 The Nexus Approach to Managing Water, Soil and Waste under Changing Climate and Growing Demands on Natural Resources

Part II Financing of Infrastructure Projects: Implications for Sustainability and Accountability

4 Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations: Questions of Accountability and Autonomy

5 Results-Based Financing and Its Potential Role in Advancing the Nexus Approach

6 Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Infrastructure Projects

Part III Strategies for Implementation: Guidance on Resource Reuse and Data Visualization

7 Applications of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Water and Wastewater Projects: Lessons from European Experienc

8 Designing Sustainable Wastewater Reuse Systems: Towards an Agroecology of Wastewater Irrigation

9 Visualization of Water Services in Africa: Data Applications for Nexus Governance

10 Policy Is Policy and Science Is Science: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?