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Preface
Thisbooksprings frommystrongconviction that cleanwaterandclean
energy are the critical elements of long-term global sustainable
development. I also believe that we are experiencing the beginning
of an energy revolution in these early years of the 21st century.
Providing clean water requires energy, and providing clean energy is
essential to reducing the environmental impacts of energy production
and use. Thus, I see a nexus – a connection, a causal link – among
water, energy, and environment. In recent years we have adopted the
terminology of the water-energy nexus for the intimate relationship
betweenwater and energy, and similarlywe can apply the termnexus
to the close connections amongwater, energy, and environment. This
use of the term nexus can be, and has been, extended to include the
related issues of food production and health. Dealing with, and
writing about, a two-element nexus is difficult enough. In this book, I
will limit my analysis and discussion to the three-element water-
energy-environment nexus and leave the discussion of other possible
nexus elements to thosemore qualified to comment.
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Water, Energy, and Environment
A Primer
- Title
- Water, Energy, and Environment
- Subtitle
- A Primer
- Author
- Allan R. Hoffman
- Publisher
- IWA Publishing
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9781780409665
- Size
- 14.0 x 21.0 cm
- Pages
- 218
- Keywords
- Environmental Sciences, Water, Renewable Energy, Environmental Technology
- Category
- Technik