The Nexus of Renewable Energy, Water, and Food Systems
This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “The Nexus of Renewable Energy, Water, and Food Systems”. Interactions among energy, water, and food systems represent grand global challenges in the Anthropocene era. Renewable energy transitions—including innovation, design, adoption, operation, maintenance, societal demand and opposition, economics, institutions, and policies—constitute key areas of research, particularly in relation to water and food systems.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
Energy–water–food interactions, considering resource use, technology, infrastructure, and/or policy
Climate-smart energy generation coupled to sustainable food and water use
Off-grid renewables in the context of local water availability and food/ irrigation demand
Smart Village and/or Smart Grid systems
Resource efficiency—savings or expanded use?
Life-cycle analysis of renewables, carbon and water footprints
Renewable energy access, energy poverty, human dimensions
Integrated systems that minimize energy use while producing food and/or clean water
Prof. Dr. Christopher A. Scott
Prof. Dr. Kimberly L. Ogden
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Published Papers
Energies - ISSN 1996-1073