New Approaches in Water-Energy-Food-Environment-Climate (WEFEC) Nexus

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to invite you all to submit your latest research to a Special Issue entitled “New Approaches in Water-Energy-Food-Environment-Climate (WEFEC) Nexus”, which will be published by the MPDI journal Water. Here we tend to tackle some of the most cutting-edge research topics and nuances of Water and environmental sciences that aim to shed light on the water-energy-food nexus. We are interested in getting a better understanding of how such entanglements would be ultimately reflected in our lives and exploring potential ways to handle the subtle challenges that would arise via water resources planning and management schemes or state-of-the-art technologies. In addition to this, we are also interested in seeing potential ways to quantify the components involved in the said nexus, measure its impacts from different angles, and, ultimately, provide the decision-makers with a practical framework to cope with the coming situations. With these in mind, we tend to explore the said matters from a different side of the nexus to explore the role of Water, energy, or food in remedying or potentially exacerbating the situation. Additionally, we are interested to see how climate, and specifically climate change, can affect the bigger picture. Perhaps a topic of interest would be exploring how such a nexus would help evaluate the suitability of a managerial scheme or a state-of-the-art technology such as desalination.  

Prof. Dr. Omid Bozorg-Haddad
Guest Editor

Babak Zolghadr-Asli
Guest Editor Assistant

Manuscript Submission Information

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