Alessandro Melis is an Italian architect and the curator of the Italian National Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is a Professor of Architecture and the inaugural IDC Foundation Endowed Chair of New York Institute of Technology.Julia Brown is a qualitative human geographer and Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development, Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, with a particular focus on sustainable rural water resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa.Claire Coulter is a Teaching Fellow in the Operations and Systems Management Group at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She was the Project Coordinator for CRUNCH and her research explores strategies for encouraging environmentally sustainable behaviour in urban SMEs.

• Preface Steffen Lehmann, Introduction Julia Brown, Claire Coulter, and Alessandro Melis, PART 1: Urban Living Laboratories, 1.0 Introducing the CRUNCH Urban Living Labs Claire Coulter, 1.1 Eindhoven: Brainport Smart District: A circular economy experiment Maryam Ghodsvali, Gamze Dane, and Bauke de Vries, 1.2 Gdańsk: Urban Initiative Laboratory Joanna Bach-Glowinska, Karolina Krośnicka, Jacek Łubiński, and Joanna Tobolewicz, 1.3 Miami: Data-driven planning and scenario tools Thomas Spiegelhalter, 1.4 Southend-on-Sea: Green infrastructure for climate resilience Claire Coulter, 1.5 Taipei: Sustainable management for wastescapes: A Food-Water-Energy nexus experiment Mei- Hua Yuan, Pei-Te Chiueh, Yu-Sen Chang, Hsin-hsin Tung, Chnag-Ping Yu, Hwong-wen Ma, Shang-Lien Lo, 1.6 Uppsala: Groundwater management in the neighbourhood of Rosendal Vera van Zoest, Edith Ngai, Shashank Shekher Tripathi, and Archit Suryawanshi, PART 2: Food-Water-Energy nexus findings, 2. The urban living lab as an adaptive governance mechanism for the transdisciplinary Food-Water-Energy nexus: Lessons learned from six local contexts Maryam Ghodsvali, Gamze Dane, and Bauke de Vries, 3. Urban greening snakes and ladders: A case study of the practical realities of implementing Food-Water-Energy nexus projects in Southend-on-Sea, UK Heather Rumble and Julia Brown, 4. Capacity: Transforming challenges into opportunities Joanna Bach-Głowińska, Jacek Łubinski, and Joanna Tobolewicz, 5. Data and knowledge supporting decision-making for the urban Food-Water-Energy nexus Mei- Hua Yuan, Joanna Bach-Głowińska, Pei-Te Chiueh, Yu-Sen Chang, Hsin-hsin Tung, Chnag-Ping Yu, Hwong-wen Ma, Jacek Łubiński, Shang-Lien Lo, 6. Development of an integrated decision support system (IDSS) Vera van Zoest, Edith Ngai, Shashank Shekher Tripathi, and Archit Suryawanshi, 7. Genetic Water-Energy-Food nexus design research for Miami’s Greater Islands: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices (CRUNCH) – scripting and coding AI-M’s Thomas Spiegelhalter, Levente Juhasz, and Srikanth Namuduri, 8. The role of Digital Twins in the CRUNCH project Chris Cooper and Claire Coulter, Conclusions Julia Brown, Claire Coulter, and Alessandro Melis

Alessandro Melis is an Italian architect and the curator of the Italian National Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is a Professor of Architecture and the inaugural IDC Foundation Endowed Chair of New York Institute of Technology.Julia Brown is a qualitative human geographer and Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development, Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, with a particular focus on sustainable rural water resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa.Claire Coulter is a Teaching Fellow in the Operations and Systems Management Group at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She was the Project Coordinator for CRUNCH and her research explores strategies for encouraging environmentally sustainable behaviour in urban SMEs.

• Preface Steffen Lehmann, Introduction Julia Brown, Claire Coulter, and Alessandro Melis, PART 1: Urban Living Laboratories, 1.0 Introducing the CRUNCH Urban Living Labs Claire Coulter, 1.1 Eindhoven: Brainport Smart District: A circular economy experiment Maryam Ghodsvali, Gamze Dane, and Bauke de Vries, 1.2 Gdańsk: Urban Initiative Laboratory Joanna Bach-Glowinska, Karolina Krośnicka, Jacek Łubiński, and Joanna Tobolewicz, 1.3 Miami: Data-driven planning and scenario tools Thomas Spiegelhalter, 1.4 Southend-on-Sea: Green infrastructure for climate resilience Claire Coulter, 1.5 Taipei: Sustainable management for wastescapes: A Food-Water-Energy nexus experiment Mei- Hua Yuan, Pei-Te Chiueh, Yu-Sen Chang, Hsin-hsin Tung, Chnag-Ping Yu, Hwong-wen Ma, Shang-Lien Lo, 1.6 Uppsala: Groundwater management in the neighbourhood of Rosendal Vera van Zoest, Edith Ngai, Shashank Shekher Tripathi, and Archit Suryawanshi, PART 2: Food-Water-Energy nexus findings, 2. The urban living lab as an adaptive governance mechanism for the transdisciplinary Food-Water-Energy nexus: Lessons learned from six local contexts Maryam Ghodsvali, Gamze Dane, and Bauke de Vries, 3. Urban greening snakes and ladders: A case study of the practical realities of implementing Food-Water-Energy nexus projects in Southend-on-Sea, UK Heather Rumble and Julia Brown, 4. Capacity: Transforming challenges into opportunities Joanna Bach-Głowińska, Jacek Łubinski, and Joanna Tobolewicz, 5. Data and knowledge supporting decision-making for the urban Food-Water-Energy nexus Mei- Hua Yuan, Joanna Bach-Głowińska, Pei-Te Chiueh, Yu-Sen Chang, Hsin-hsin Tung, Chnag-Ping Yu, Hwong-wen Ma, Jacek Łubiński, Shang-Lien Lo, 6. Development of an integrated decision support system (IDSS) Vera van Zoest, Edith Ngai, Shashank Shekher Tripathi, and Archit Suryawanshi, 7. Genetic Water-Energy-Food nexus design research for Miami’s Greater Islands: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices (CRUNCH) – scripting and coding AI-M’s Thomas Spiegelhalter, Levente Juhasz, and Srikanth Namuduri, 8. The role of Digital Twins in the CRUNCH project Chris Cooper and Claire Coulter, Conclusions Julia Brown, Claire Coulter, and Alessandro Melis

Alessandro Melis is an Italian architect and the curator of the Italian National Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is a Professor of Architecture and the inaugural IDC Foundation Endowed Chair of New York Institute of Technology.Julia Brown is a qualitative human geographer and Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development, Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, with a particular focus on sustainable rural water resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa.Claire Coulter is a Teaching Fellow in the Operations and Systems Management Group at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She was the Project Coordinator for CRUNCH and her research explores strategies for encouraging environmentally sustainable behaviour in urban SMEs.

• Preface Steffen Lehmann, Introduction Julia Brown, Claire Coulter, and Alessandro Melis, PART 1: Urban Living Laboratories, 1.0 Introducing the CRUNCH Urban Living Labs Claire Coulter, 1.1 Eindhoven: Brainport Smart District: A circular economy experiment Maryam Ghodsvali, Gamze Dane, and Bauke de Vries, 1.2 Gdańsk: Urban Initiative Laboratory Joanna Bach-Glowinska, Karolina Krośnicka, Jacek Łubiński, and Joanna Tobolewicz, 1.3 Miami: Data-driven planning and scenario tools Thomas Spiegelhalter, 1.4 Southend-on-Sea: Green infrastructure for climate resilience Claire Coulter, 1.5 Taipei: Sustainable management for wastescapes: A Food-Water-Energy nexus experiment Mei- Hua Yuan, Pei-Te Chiueh, Yu-Sen Chang, Hsin-hsin Tung, Chnag-Ping Yu, Hwong-wen Ma, Shang-Lien Lo, 1.6 Uppsala: Groundwater management in the neighbourhood of Rosendal Vera van Zoest, Edith Ngai, Shashank Shekher Tripathi, and Archit Suryawanshi, PART 2: Food-Water-Energy nexus findings, 2. The urban living lab as an adaptive governance mechanism for the transdisciplinary Food-Water-Energy nexus: Lessons learned from six local contexts Maryam Ghodsvali, Gamze Dane, and Bauke de Vries, 3. Urban greening snakes and ladders: A case study of the practical realities of implementing Food-Water-Energy nexus projects in Southend-on-Sea, UK Heather Rumble and Julia Brown, 4. Capacity: Transforming challenges into opportunities Joanna Bach-Głowińska, Jacek Łubinski, and Joanna Tobolewicz, 5. Data and knowledge supporting decision-making for the urban Food-Water-Energy nexus Mei- Hua Yuan, Joanna Bach-Głowińska, Pei-Te Chiueh, Yu-Sen Chang, Hsin-hsin Tung, Chnag-Ping Yu, Hwong-wen Ma, Jacek Łubiński, Shang-Lien Lo, 6. Development of an integrated decision support system (IDSS) Vera van Zoest, Edith Ngai, Shashank Shekher Tripathi, and Archit Suryawanshi, 7. Genetic Water-Energy-Food nexus design research for Miami’s Greater Islands: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus CHoices (CRUNCH) – scripting and coding AI-M’s Thomas Spiegelhalter, Levente Juhasz, and Srikanth Namuduri, 8. The role of Digital Twins in the CRUNCH project Chris Cooper and Claire Coulter, Conclusions Julia Brown, Claire Coulter, and Alessandro Melis