Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus (eBook)

Climate policies and strategies in the European Union.- Nexus approach to Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Adaptation and Ecosystem Management: new paths for a Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development.- Function and values of peri-urban areas: a multifunctional perspective from the EU to Lombardy Region policies.- Urban-rural partnerships and governance of peri-urban areas in a European perspective. Towards regenerative regions .- Qualifying decision-making through strategic environmental assessment: advancing the resilience of peri-urban areas.- Services, values and functions of peri-urban areas in a NEXUS approach.- NEXUS services from a territorial perspective: interactions and trade-offs.- Flood risk management and the nexus approach: a preliminary conceptual overview based on case studies.- NEXUS and disaster prevention: what can we learn from the Genevan urban area?.- Renaturalizing riverbanks and making space for the river: coupling ecological concerns and risk prevention measures.- Exploring the water-food-energy and climate nexus: insights from the Moroccan Draa Valley.- Peri-urban/peri-rural areas: identities, values and strategies.- Local food chain: multi-stakeholders polices in Dutch and European polices.- Urban-rural partnerships in peri-urban areas: the non-profit association role.- Between city and countryside: changing nexus in the urban phenomenon of Rome.- Energy flows in peri-urban areas.- Rethinking energies in peri-urban areas: potentiality and action criteria.- Strategies to reduce the use of fossil fuels in the Lombardy Region.- Bioregion and Eco-Efficiency.