Anatomy of a buzzword: The emergence of ‘the water-energy-food nexus’ in UK natural resource debates
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Cairns and Krzywoszynska (2016) identify the nexus as a contested 'buzzword' but solely focus on UK natural resource debates, which may differ from international ones.
“Cairns and Krzywoszynska (2016) identify the nexus as contested 'buzzword' (ibid. p. 164) but solely focus on UK natural resource debates, which may differ from international ones.”
From What Is Driving the Water-Energy-Food Nexus? Discourses, Knowledge, and Politics of an Emerging Resource Governance Concept (2018) · cites this paper as Cairns and Krzywoszynska, 2016
The Abstract (p. 2) calls the nexus a buzzword, and the Introduction (p. 4) says the paper examines how its terminology is mobilised and contested in UK natural resource debates. But “solely” overstates its scope: the Introduction also says it explores connections with international environmental and science-policy debates. The paper does not establish that UK debates differ from international ones. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe ambiguity of concepts like the nexus make them susceptible to processes of appropriation by powerful actors to suit particular agendas.
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Sustainability in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
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- Authors
- Cairns, R., & Krzywoszynska, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Sussex (GB)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Krzywoszynska, Anna
- Venue
- Environmental Science & Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-10
- Volume
- 64
- Pages
- 164-170
- ISSN
- 1462-9011 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2485702452
- Cited by
- 317
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 34 · 2017: 27 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 19.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- sro.sussex.ac.uk
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Environmental Science & Policy (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- ESRC as part of the ESRC Nexus Network
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Keywords
- water-energy-food nexus, buzzwords, natural resource policy, integration, power relations, transdisciplinary research, science-policy interface, efficiency improvement
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