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IFWEN is a Belmont Forum funded international team of researchers and stakeholders working to advance knowledge about urban governance related to food, water, and energy nexus (FWEN) connections in cities, and Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) as its base. IFWEN stands for: Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water, and Energy Nexus in Cities.
Improved governance of the interactions between food, water, and energy in cities can provide significant benefits in addressing some of the most complex global problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as help achieve other developmental goals such as food security and health.
This team of researchers, practitioners and creative professionals worked together from 2018-2021 to advance knowledge about urban governance at different levels related to the FWE nexus (FWEN) using Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI), by developing new concepts and approaches to understand how to assess, govern and build GBI solutions and policies.
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