Water-Energy-Food Nexus for Sustainable Land Management
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 29476
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Interests: hydrological modeling; renewable energy; flood risk; water–energy nexus; stochastic hydrology; water resources management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(1) Introduction, including scientific background and highlighting the importance of this research area.
A common perception is that wealth as GDP per capita, is a metric for prosperity for humanity which increases life expectancy. However, the true wealth is the availability of water-energy-food nexus which is also related with life expectancy, showing that the coverage of real needs is what prosperity is.
Humans need a constant supply of water, food, and energy to live, and are necessary in sufficient quantity and quality and require constant replenishment.
The multiple and complex interconnections between water, energy, and food, either expressed as complementarities or conflicts, raised the need for an integrated viewpoint to ensure a fair and sustainable sharing of the three vital resources across all scales of interest (international, national, local). In this vein, the concept of the water-energy-food nexus is recognized as the running paradigm for their combined planning and management.
(2) Aim of the Special Issue and how the subject relates to the journal scope.
In addition to these three critical elements, land is also a precious resource. For instance, land is needed for food production or for cultivating biofuels, both raising water needs for irrigation. It is also used for the installation of all kinds of infrastructures that are associated with energy and water production. In this vein, a major conflict arises within the water-energy-food nexus, given that land is their common interface.
In a fast-changing world, where multifaced crises arising, driving big areas of the world to energy poverty and food crisis, the necessity to study the water-energy-food nexus in combination with land, within a pragmatic approach becomes obvious.
(3) Suggested themes and article types for submissions.
- The evaluation of land uses in the design and management of water-energy-food nexus projects;
- New technologies for land uses, evaluated in the frame of water-energy-food nexus;
- Novel multicriteria frameworks involving land use analysis, for the assessment of the efficiency of water-energy-food nexus projects;
- Novel tools for quantitative evaluation of WEF aspects including land uses;
- New frameworks for integrating citizens perspectives and resolving related conflicts (e.g., social opposition to landscape transformation and land use change for WEF projects);
- The role of WEF projects in the transformation of land aesthetics;
- Successful case studies of design and management of WEF projects in relation to land uses;
- The role of the spatial scale of WEF projects in efficiency and related management risks;
- Self-sufficient communities in terms of the WEF nexus and the role of available land;
- New datasets and novel approaches for quantifying interactions between WEF and Land.
Dr. G.-Fivos Sargentis
Dr. Theano-Any Iliopoulou
Dr. Andreas Angelakis
Dr. Nikolaos Malamos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water-energy-food nexus
- multi-criteria optimization
- sustainable management
- environmental resources
- landscape transformation
- land uses
- self-sufficient communities
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