William Easterling, NSF assistant director for Geosciences and Professor of Geography at Penn State has commented: "Food, energy and water have long been studied independently or in pairs, but not all three at once... Now, novel ways of examining all three together are yielding important new knowledge that will help us achieve food, water and energy security even with further population growth."
This week, we will read about the FEW Nexus and the Environmental Impacts of Agriculture.
As you go through the material for this week, consider the following:
To Read | Read the Week 6 course content. |
Use the links below to continue moving through the lesson material. |
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To Read | Leck, H., Conway, D., Bradshaw, M., & Rees, J. (2015). Tracing the water–energy–food nexus: description, theory and practice. Geography Compass, 9(8), 445-460. | A link to the reading is located in the Week 6 module in Canvas. |
To Read | Stein, C., & Jaspersen, L. J. (2018). A relational framework for investigating nexus governance. The Geographical Journal (online first). | A link to the reading is located in the Week 6 module in Canvas. |
To Read | Campbell, B. M., Beare, D. J., Bennett, E. M., Hall-Spencer, J. M., Ingram, J. S. I., Jaramillo, F., . . . Shindell, D. (2017). Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries. Ecology and Society, 22(4) | A link to the reading is located in the Week 6 module in Canvas. |
To Submit | See Canvas, course announcements. |
Note: Please refer to the Calendar in Canvas for specific time frames and due dates.