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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
P. Saundry, B. L. Ruddell (eds.), The Food-Energy-Water Nexus, AESS
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29914-9_1
Chapter 1
Introduction
Peter Saundry and Benjamin L. Ruddell
The “Blue Marble” image of Earth taken from Apollo 17, December 7, 1972 (Source: NASA;
Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt)
P. Saundry (*)
Energy Policy and Climate, Advanced Academic Programs, Krieger School of Arts
and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA
e-mail: psaundr1@jhu.edu
B. L. Ruddell
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University,
Flagstaff, AZ, USA
e-mail: Benjamin.Ruddell@nau.edu