WEF Nexus - Advanced School on water energy food nexus
Market Research - Campinas, N/A, BR
WEF Nexus - Advanced School on water energy food nexus Employees
WEF Nexus - Advanced School on water energy food nexus Details
The Advanced School on Water-Energy-Food Nexus will foster the exchange of knowledge from different area of scientific knowledge among the participants, lecturers and organizers. It will also promote the development of collaborative networks to gather a critical mass of scientists interested in the nexus approach and its impacts on ecosystems and society. This two-week course will help graduate students, post-docs and young researchers to analyse complex systems by understanding the societal, economic and environmental impacts involved in decisions regarding technology innovation and policies design. The Advanced School will take place in Campinas, Brazil, from 15th till 26th October, 2018.Achieving water, energy, and food security is a future central challenge that is possible even under difficult and challenging global economic conditions. Global demand and supply assessments predict significant shortfalls in water and food in the future, but this should not mask the reality that universal access to minimum standards of water, energy and food can be achieved and sustained within planetary boundaries provided there is political commitment and an appropriate enabling environment. The word ‘nexus' means the understanding interdependencies, tensions and trade-offs. In the context of environmental change, the water, energy and food systems are inextricably linked, and any effort to target sustainability needs to consider their broader connections. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's) are mostly dependent on solutions using this nexus approach.The São Paulo School of Advanced Science (SPSAS) already financed several schools which were attended by thousands of researchers and students from several countries.Through the SPSAS FAPESP offers funding for the organization of short duration courses in advanced research in the different areas of knowledge in the State of Sao Paulo.For more information visit our website.
