It's easy to get overwhelmed - especially when a column of enemy troops warps in and begins tearing up your base while you're on the opposite side of the map - and Full Frontal Assault's single-player economy is lopsided in favor of the AI. Turrets and barriers fall apart at the slightest hint of enemy fire unless you're there backing them up, distracting bad guys and replacing busted defenses as needed. You need bolts (the game's currency) earned from exploration and completing objectives in order to buy turrets back at your base, but leaving the base unattended while enemy waves are approaching is tantamount to surrender. This chapter does introduce the contributions in the Handbook on the water-energy-food nexus with a balanced mix of conceptual chapters and more grounded empirical studies.There's an uncomfortable balance between defense and exploration in Full Frontal Assault's campaign mode. Such gaming is proposed as a means for nexus performance assessment and stakeholder engagement. Game based learning through serious games involving practitioners and policy makers is a means for understanding policies and their impacts. Understanding the interlinkages and the feedback loops between the different water-energy-food systems enable to consider the nexus as a complex system. The chapter presents multiple reviews on the water-energy-food nexus literature and does emphasise research on the nexus is largely driven by resource scarcity and the related risks to the economy and society as large. Action from science, policy, business and civil society is needed to effectively deal with trade-offs between these resources and search for policies to deal with environmental pressures.

Making explicit the interconnections between water, energy and food and the search for strategies to manage our natural resources sustainably are key for the Handbook on the water-energy-food nexus.

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