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New York City faces a variety of water-, energy-, and food-related nexus pressures that are detrimental to the development of a green economy. To reduce nexus pressures, the city uses a variety of fiscal and non-fiscal tools that create interdependencies and synergies between the nexus systems while reducing trade-offs between the systems in its pursuit of green growth.
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Brears, R.C. (2018). The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in New York City. In: The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58365-9_4
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