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About the talk
The world’s resources such as water, energy, and food are inextricably linked, which bring about trade-offs but also synergies under different decisions and policies. Although these resources are interconnected, they are often studied and managed separately. Integrating these resources within a 'nexus' approach can better transition societies towards a green economy and hence wider sustainability. However, implementation of nexus approach faces multiple challenges such as conflicts among diverse stakeholders. The implementation challenges can be resolved through environmental diplomacy, a negotiated approach that blends science and policy for resolving conflicts of boundary crossing resource management problems. Using multiple cases (i.e., Ganges-Brahmaputra, Nile), Dr. Gain will present transboundary resource conflicts problems. For resolving such problems and enabling cooperation, he will describe mutual gain negotiation of diplomacy and WEF nexus approach.  
 
About the speaker
Animesh Gain is a research fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.  As a Marie-Curie Global Fellow, he worked at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a principal investigator, funded by the European Commission, he is currently working on understanding and resolving transboundary water conflicts through water diplomacy approach and mutual gain negotiation. His broad area of interest is in the field of environmental sustainability with particular focus on human-nature interactions and water-energy-food nexus. He conducted a PhD in science and management of climate change from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), in collaboration with Utrecht University (Netherlands) and United Nations University (Germany). He conducted interdisciplinary research in multiple institutions in Italy, Germany, Netherlands, UK, U.S., and Bangladesh. He is the recipient of Outstanding Young Scientists Award 2016 of European Geosciences Union (EGU). He published 45 peer reviewed journal articles in the field of water management and sustainability. He is an editor of two peer-reviewed journals.