Sweden CROSS-SECTORAL COLLABORATION

Lead Partner: Uppsala University

The Nexus challenges in Sweden are linked to forestry, water, energy, food and climate sectors. Major challenges are knowledge gaps and considerable uncertainties on how environmental systems will change and what their impacts will be. SIM4NEXUS has led to two key conclusions:

1.    A Nexus approach is necessary to handle current challenges societies are facing,
particularly about addressing climate change and efficient resources use. System Dynamics Modelling and Serious Gaming proved to be important tools for simulating the complex cross-sectoral interlinkages and more importantly for learning purposes. Nevertheless, due to data limitations and the related complexity of the Nexus system, such tools were suggested to be better utilised for educational purposes than for real-life decision making.

2.    Adopting such a Nexus approach is a complex endeavour that requires comprehensive changes in the current policy-making and decision- making systems. Interaction with stakeholders from different sectors, including face-to-face cross-sectoral meetings (workshops), is necessary to increase awareness of Nexus issues and build the capacity of the different sectors for future improvements.

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For more information please contact:

Dr. Claudia TEUTSCHBEIN
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University
claudia.teutschbein@geo.uu.se
Dr. Malgorzata BLICHARSKA
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University
malgorzata.blicharska@geo.uu.se