Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities

• To assess the changes in trade-offs of Food-Water-Energy Nexus (FWEN) in Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) and their association with spatial planning and governance in cities using empirical cases (TBD); • To understand the barriers that hinder innovative and integrated FWEN approaches using GBI at different scales; and specifically look for the common features of diverse interventions; • To understand empirically how successful GBI-based innovations that changed the FWEN took place, which capabilities cities had to innovate and how they develop those capabilities, and approaches used to overcome the barriers that make IFWEN implementation more difficult in practice; • To design a framework, guide of best practices and tools to foster IFWEN using GBI with better urban interventions and decision- making processes.