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Research priorities for managing the impacts and dependencies of business upon food,energy, water and the environment
Authors:Jonathan M H Green  Gemma R Cranston  William J Sutherland  Hannah R Tranter  Sarah J Bell  Tim G Benton  Eva Blixt  Colm Bowe  Sarah Broadley  Andrew Brown  Chris Brown  Neil Burns  David Butler  Hannah Collins  Helen Crowley  Justin DeKoszmovszky  Les G Firbank  Brett Fulford  Toby A Gardner  Rosemary S Hails  Sharla Halvorson  Michael Jack  Ben Kerrison  Lenny S C Koh  Steven C Lang  Emily J McKenzie  Pablo Monsivais  Timothy O’Riordan  Jeremy Osborn  Stephen Oswald  Emma Price Thomas  David Raffaelli  Belinda Reyers  Jagjit S Srai  Bernardo B N Strassburg  David Webster  Ruth Welters  Gail Whiteman  James Wilsdon  Bhaskar Vira
Institution:1.Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute,Downing Site,Cambridge,UK;2.University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership,Cambridge,UK;3.Stockholm Environment Institute, Environment Building,University of York,York,UK;4.Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology,University of Cambridge, The David Attenborough Building,Cambridge,UK;5.Openfield,Lincs,UK;6.UK Global Food Security Programme, BBSRC, Polaris House,Swindon,UK;7.School of Biology,University of Leeds,Leeds,UK;8.Swedish Steel Association (Jernkontoret),Stockholm,Sweden;9.Environment Research Group, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology,Liverpool John Moores University,Liverpool,UK;10.Saint Gobain Building Distribution UK, Merchant House,Coventry,UK;11.Anglian Water, Lancaster House,Huntingdon,UK;12.Asda, Asda House, Southbank,Leeds,UK;13.Mondi Group,Addlestone,UK;14.Centre for Water Systems, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences,University of Exeter,Exeter,UK;15.Economic and Social Research Council,Polaris House,Swindon,UK;16.Kering,Paris Cedex 08,France;17.Ovo Energy,Bristol,UK;18.GlaxoSmithKline,Brentford,UK;19.Stockholm Environment Institute,Stockholm,Sweden;20.Centre for Ecology and Hydrology,Wallingford,UK;21.Global Headquarters, Nestlé S.A,Vevey,Switzerland;22.HSBC Bank,London,UK;23.EDF Energy, Cardinal Place,London,UK;24.Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre and Management School,University of Sheffield,Sheffield,UK;25.Ernst and Young LLP,London,UK;26.WWF and the Natural Capital Project, The Living Planet Centre,Rufford House,Surrey,UK;27.UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit,University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science,Cambridge,UK;28.School of Environmental Sciences,University of East Anglia,Norwich,UK;29.Bidvest Fresh Limited,London,UK;30.ArcelorMittal, Berkeley Square House,London,UK;31.BESS Directorate, Environment, University of York,York,UK;32.Stockholm Resilience Centre,Stockholm University,Stockholm,Sweden;33.Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering,University of Cambridge,Cambridge,UK;34.International Institute for Sustainability & Department of Geography and the Environment,Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janerio,Rio de Janeiro,Brazil;35.Jordans and Ryvita,Biggleswade,UK;36.Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business,Lancaster University,Lancaster,UK;37.SPRU-Science Policy Research Unit,University of Sussex,Brighton,UK
Abstract:Delivering access to sufficient food, energy and water resources to ensure human wellbeing is a major concern for governments worldwide. However, it is crucial to account for the ‘nexus’ of interactions between these natural resources and the consequent implications for human wellbeing. The private sector has a critical role in driving positive change towards more sustainable nexus management and could reap considerable benefits from collaboration with researchers to devise solutions to some of the foremost sustainability challenges of today. Yet opportunities are missed because the private sector is rarely involved in the formulation of deliverable research priorities. We convened senior research scientists and influential business leaders to collaboratively identify the top forty questions that, if answered, would best help companies understand and manage their food-energy-water-environment nexus dependencies and impacts. Codification of the top order nexus themes highlighted research priorities around development of pragmatic yet credible tools that allow businesses to incorporate nexus interactions into their decision-making; demonstration of the business case for more sustainable nexus management; identification of the most effective levers for behaviour change; and understanding incentives or circumstances that allow individuals and businesses to take a leadership stance. Greater investment in the complex but productive relations between the private sector and research community will create deeper and more meaningful collaboration and cooperation.
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