The article discusses challenges in managing water, energy, and food resources together. It focuses on how different levels of government and organizations can work together better. The researchers found four main issues: problems with planning at different levels, disagreements on who has power, rules in different areas affecting each other, and uncertainty due to complex interactions. They looked at examples from different countries to show how important it is to consider different levels and scales when making decisions about these resources. The article suggests that efforts to manage these resources should be checked for assumptions about scale.