According to Dr. Kent Portney, Director of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government & Public Service, in order to achieve greater sustainability, more efficient means of using these resources must be found, yet the Institute’s research determined that there is very little contact or interaction among water, energy, and food and agriculture agencies. Since coordination is an important part of achieving greater resource efficiencies, he argues that explicit steps need to be taken to ensure that great communication takes place. You can read about this issue in “Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: What It Is and Why It Matters.”
The Takeaway is a publication of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Bush School at Texas A&M University.
