implementation of sustainable environmental
resources management strategies, which need to
be established and/or strengthened. This book
promotes the Nexus Approach as a tool for
achieving SDGs, both in resilient cities and
multifunctional land use systems, paying special
attention to practical applications, the socioeconomic dimension and governance frameworks supporting or hindering the implementation of a Nexus Approach. While the former
book (Hülsmann and Ardakanian 2018a),
focused on implementation and monitoring
strategies on a conceptual level, here we present
practical examples on how this can be achieved
in both rural and urban settings. We deliberately
refrained from dividing the contributions into
subsections dealing with resilient cities and
multifunctional land-use systems, respectively.
Instead, we aim to highlight the interconnections and point out the respective focus
in our brief outline to the contributions of this
book below.
Fig. 2 Implementation of a resource nexus approach
(interdependent with and complementary to a sectoral
nexus) leads to sustainable development and sustainable
resources management within resilient cities and
multifunctional land-use systems at the urban–periurban–rural interface; keywords within circles refer to
issues addressed in the chapters of this book
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