Bassel Daher, Ph.D.

Tag: Nexus Governance

A Systems Approach for Disaster Risk Reduction: Exploring the Nexus of Energy, Food, and Human Mobility in the Northern Countries of Central America

Globally, disasters and their impacts have been characterized by increasing frequency and changing patterns. Global warming effects, including climate change, have exacerbated the severity and frequency of hydrometeorological and oceanographic, and other risk factors or drivers, such as population growth, urbanization, limited access to resources, inadequate infrastructure, and prevailing structural development conditions, putting additional lives […]

Building resilience in fragile and conflict-affected agrifood systems through a water-energy-food nexus approach

Fragility has become a prevailing reality in an increasing number of countries in various areas, including Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) [1]. The concept of fragility encompasses a range of dimensions, including armed conflict, migration, economic and political instability, erosion of the social fabric, and scarcity, depletion, and contamination of natural resources […]

Examining Lebanon’s Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens

Lebanon faces a mix of underlying political and economic challenges, shocks, and triggering events that threaten the sustainability and resilience of its interconnected resource systems. The complex nature of these pressures begs for a systems approach to better understand the existing interconnections and to support the co-creation of cross-sectoral solutions to address them. This article […]

Water and Youth Engagement Strategy 2023-2028

Youth make up a large portion of the world’s population, as well as the UfM member states population. Nearly 15.5% of the world’s population is between the ages of 15-24.4 Within the UfM member states, a similar population average of 12.8% of the total population are between the age range of 15-24.5 If we consider […]

Editorial: Sustainable and resilient food systems in times of crises

Sustainable and resilient food systems in times of crises The global food system is facing multiple and multifaceted challenges and crises: increasing population, climate change, pandemics, conflicts, economic shocks, and natural disasters. These challenges have exposed its fragility and underscored the urgency of transitioning to sustainable and resilient food systems. Such systems ensure equitable access […]

Development of Framework for the Governance of the Water, Energy, Food and Environment (WEFE) Nexus in Jordan: Governance and institutional frameworks analysis and global lessons learned

Water, energy, and food systems are tightly interconnected, and the way in which they are managed has direct impacts on the environment and eco-systems in which they exist. Water, energy, and food security are critical for economic growth and human development. Globally, water demand is expected to increase by 1% each year for the next […]

Developing a strategic network to address the global challenges of agricultural land and soil management to adapt to climate change.

Agricultural land and soil (ALS) systems face complex and interacting socio-ecological challenges and tradeoffs. These systems play a critical role in food and water security and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Improving the resilience of complex ALS systems is a societal grand challenge that requires cross-disciplinary research collaboration and cross-sectoral stakeholder engagement. We have established […]

The relevance and challenges in communicating the nexus

Beyond academic debates, the nexus remains a new concept for many practitioners and decision-makers, with often only a fuzzy delineation (intersection of water, energy, food, land, climate, biodiversity, health, etc.) and limited attraction. In addition, its association to ‘complexity’ often hampers the uptake in solution-oriented and sector-specific planning and management, whilst simplified approaches are discarded […]