Session: World Café: Food-Energy-Water Nexus (Invited Talks)

The affordable production, security, and safety of Food, Energy, and Water resources (the FEW Nexus) can no longer be addressed in isolation. The complicated world structure and global connections result in a complex system problem with the search to balance local needs and complex global connections. New frameworks, methodologies, and tools that account for diverse stakeholders are needed to manage the Nexus. Chemical engineers bring important understanding, skills, and gifts to address this problem. This plenary session leads a topical conference on the Nexus and builds on the AIChE / IChemE collaboration on the Nexus. The topical conference provides a forum for exchanging research, case studies, and ideas for addressing the Nexus.