Chapter 1. The Nexus Approach as Tool for Achieving SDGs: Trends and Needs.- Chapter 2. Key Strategies to Achieve the SDGs and Consequences for Monitoring Resource Use.- Chapter 3. The Urgent Need to Re-Engineer Nitrogen-Efficient Food Production for the Planet.- Chapter 4. Participatory Processes and Integrated Modelling Supporting Nexus Implementations.- Chapter 5. Games for Aiding Stakeholder Deliberation on Nexus Policy Issues.- Chapter 6. Governance of Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Social Network Analysis Approach to Understanding Agency Behaviour.- Chapter 7. Integrated SDG Implementation – How a Cross-Scale (Vertical) and Cross-Regional Nexus Approach Can Complement Cross-Sectoral (Horizontal) Integration.
Stephan Hülsmann is an Academic Officer at UNU-FLORES where he
leads the Systems and Flux Analysis considering Global Change
Assessment unit. He studied Biology in Göttingen, Kiel and Lund
(Sweden) and graduated (Diplom) in Göttingen, Germany. He obtained
his PhD at Technische Universität Dresden (integrated water quality
management in reservoirs), followed by a research project at the
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) of the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). After returning to TU Dresden
he worked as a senior research scientist with the interdisciplinary
Hydro Sciences Department, Institute of Hydrobiology, prior to
assuming his function as Project Officer at the UNU Vice Rectorate
in Europe and UNU-FLORES. His research focuses on integrated water
and watershed management, nutrient fluxes, and on responses of
aquatic systems to stressors such as eutrophication and climate
change, using systems analysis approaches, modelling, as well as
experimental approaches.
Dr. Reza Ardakanian of Iran is the Founding Director of UNU-FLORES.
He has served as Director of the UN-Water Decade Programme on
Capacity Development hosted by UNU since 2007 and served as
Vice-Rector of UNU in Europe from 2009–2011. He has been on the
boards of various international programmes/organizations such as
the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme, the UNESCO
Institute for Water Education, the International Hydropower
Association, and the UNU Institute for Environment and Human
Security. He holds a PhD in Water Resources Management from
McMaster University (Canada) and is a faculty member of Sharif
University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He held a number of
national offices in Iran, including Deputy Minister for Water
Affairs (2001–2005), Senior Vice-Minister (1998–2001) and Deputy
Minister for Planning & Economic Affairs (1989–1991) with the
Ministry of Energy, and Deputy Minister for Urban Development and
Municipalities with the Ministry of Interior (1987–1989) and has
been approved as Minister of Energy of Iran in October 2017.
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