Nexus and Disaster Prevention: What Can We Learn from the Genevan Urban Area?
The nexus concept has been applied in the Canton of Geneva since the early 1950s maintaining an agricultural belt for the city that was aimed in the meantime to sustain the city with locally produced food, to provide geothermal energy, and to safeguard it
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Angela Colucci Marcello Magoni Scira Menoni Editors
Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus Sustainability and Resilience Strategies in the Age of Climate Change
Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
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Angela Colucci Marcello Magoni Scira Menoni •
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Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus Sustainability and Resilience Strategies in the Age of Climate Change
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Editors Angela Colucci DAStU Politecnico di Milano Milan Italy
Scira Menoni DAStU Politecnico di Milano Milan Italy
Marcello Magoni DAStU Politecnico di Milano Milan Italy
ISSN 2366-259X ISSN 2366-2603 (electronic) Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering ISBN 978-3-319-41020-3 ISBN 978-3-319-41022-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41022-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016945841 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Preface
Over the last few years, the fairly new concept of the food–energy–water nexus has become one of the most interesting and promising references in the analysis and identification of environmental strategies both at global and at local levels. Among the different approaches that rely on this concept, this book considers the nexus not only as a relevant issue for environmental sustainability, but also in relation to the concepts of resilience towards environmental changes and natural disasters. In this respect, the book considers three main issues: the nexus in Peri-Urban areas; the effective management of the nexus as a means to create resilience towards environmental changes and in particular to climate change; and an effective management of the nexus in risk mitigation policies. In fact, as for the first innovative aspect, the relationship between agricultural and urban areas has bec
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