Water, energy, and food are all essential for human life and activities.
The demand for these three resources is projected to increase due to population growth and economic development around the world.
There is a trade-off among the three resources, for instance if we want to increase food production, we will consume water and energy at a higher rate.
We define these relationships and their associated trade-offs as the "Nexus".
Our expected results include identifying relationships between resources, managing conflicts among related stakeholders, and policy proposals for maximizing human environmental security towards building a sustainable society.
Project Leader: ENDO Aiko(Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Associate Professor)
RIHN 2017-2018 Prospectus: Water-Energy-Food Nexus Project(842 KByte)
News
2018/02/18
Open seminar: Water, energy and fishery in Otsuchi
2017/12/13
Presentation at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting: Designing and visualizing the water-energy-food nexus system
2017/11/18
Participatory survey on hot springs in Beppu
2017/08/24
International workshop on RIHN project R08
2017/06/30
Publication: “Global Environmental Security on Water─Water-Energy-Food Nexus” in Women Lead: Our Future Living with Ocean, Homeland of Life (in Japanese)
2017/05/25
Session at JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017: Coastal Ecosystems - 1. Water Cycle and Land-Ocean Interactions
2017/03/30
Publication: Land-ocean Interactions through Groundwater/Submarine Groundwater and Human Society
2017/03/30
Publication: “Nexus and SDGs─Toward Integrated Implementation from the Aspects of Environment, Development and Society” in What are Sustainable Development Goals? (in Japanese)
2016/11/13
Participatory survey on hot springs in Beppu
2016/11/02
International workshop on RIHN project R08
2016/09/28
Session at SIMSEA Regional Symposium 2016
2016/05/26
Session: “Coastal Ecosystems - 1. Water Cycle and Land-Ocean Interactions” at JpGU2016
2016
We held The 3rd Future Earth Water-Energy-Food Nexus Workshop “Governance Transformation and Integrated Information for W-E-F NEXUS”
Date: April 4 to 6, 2016
2016/03/30
Symposium: “Land-ocean Interactions through Groundwater/Submarine Groundwater and Human Society “at 2016 Spring Meeting of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science
2016/03/31
Publication: Ground Design for the Future from Otsuchi (in Japanese)
2016/02/19
Open Seminar: ”Micro-hydropower: Utilization and Issues as a Local Resource”
2015/10/28
Workshop: “What is the Water-Energy Nexus?”
2015/10/27
International Workshop 2015 on RIHN Project R08
2015/05/28
Session: “Land-Ocean Interactions: Water and material cycles for coastal ecosystems” at JpGU 2015
2015/05/15
Symposium: “Siroshita-flounder and Submarine Groundwater: Role of Water Linking Land, Sea and Fish”
2015/04/17
Session at 7th World Water Forum 2015
2014/12/19
Session: “Advancing Understanding of Freshwater Sustainability and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Toward Optimal Management and Policy Under Climate Change and Urbanization” at AGU FALL MEETING in San Francisco 2014
2014/12/16
International meeting on RIHN project R08
2014/11/17
9th Workshop: Food Education for the Future of People and Local Society
2014/11/06
Domestic meeting on RIHN project R08
2014
We held the Society of environmental science symposium
Date: September 18 to 19, 2014
2014
We held the Warld Water Week 2014 seminar in stockhoim
Date: August 31 to September 5, 2014
2014
We held nexus project seminar "Governance of Chesapeake Bay and the Use of BayStat to Accelerate Restoration"
Date: August 18, 2014
2014
We held nexus project seminar "Indicators study"
Date: July 24, 2014
2014
We held the symposium on thinking of the revitalization from the horizon of Otsuchi studies
Date: June 14, 2014
2014
We held the 8th nexus project study
Date: May 12, 2014
2014/05/02
Session: “Land-Ocean Interaction -Water and material cycle for coastal ecosystems“ at JpGU 2014
2014
We held the 7th nexus project study
Date: March 19, 2014
2014
We held the Nexus 2014 Side Event (University of North Carolina)
Date: March 5 to 8, 2014
2014
We held the 6th nexus project study
Date: February 6, 2014
2013
We held the domestic plenary (Obama)
Date: November 7 to 9, 2013
2013/10/25
Japan-Indonesia meeting
2013/10/16
Japan- Philippines meeting
2013
We held the 5th nexus project study
Date: September 2, 2013
2013
We held the international workshop (Kickoff Meeting)
Date: July 16 to 18, 2013
2013
We held the 4th nexus project study
Date: June 21, 2013
2013
We held the 3th nexus project study
Date: May 27, 2013
2013
We held the 2th nexus project study
Date: May 21, 2013
2013/05/19
Participatory Groundwater Survey in Otsuchi Town
2013
We held the 1th nexus project study
Date: April 26, 2013
2013/03/07
We held Workshop on Spring─Science with/in Society