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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 contested 'buzzword' (ibid. p. 164) but solely focus on UK natural resource debates, which may differ from international ones.”
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Metadata
- 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
- 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 › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › 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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