Our global community is facing unprecedented risks and challenges that are directly linked to the way we
currently understand and manage our resources. Providing sustainable solutions to overcome present
challenges poses the need to study the existent interlinkages between these resources. This entry presents
water, energy, and food as main systems that form a nexus, which itself is affected by defined external factors.
Promoting integrative thinking in the process of strategic planning comes through highlighting the intimate
level of interconnectedness between these systems