Water–Energy–Food Nexus from an International Development Perspective
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2020) | Viewed by 120
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on reporting research on the development of theory, formulations, algorithms, and model applications for understanding and evaluating the potential of implementing approaches towards food–energy–water (FEW) nexus challenges. An objective is to address shared needs of FEW stakeholders, providing a summary of an emerging body of work that explores tradeoffs and synergies and evaluates alternatives among a broad list of FEW options and objectives including flexibility to facilitate tailored analyses over different geographical regions and scales.
Another broad objective is to contribute to the sustainable management and development of the food, energy, and water sectors by increasing the awareness and capacity of interdisciplinary modeling towards integrated planning and identifying/evaluating associated tradeoffs and synergies. Contributions are sought that exchange insights, experiences, and research results on innovative approaches and evidence-based operational tools to assess the economic and social tradeoffs of constraints in food, energy, and water security. Designed tools may focus on the upstream sector planning in order to identify primary opportunities and constraints to water, energy, and food development, as well as evaluating opportunities to curb demand growth without compromising quality of service, thus indicating priorities for more detailed analysis as well as providing characterization of alternative scenarios of investment in each sector. This will also be an important step toward gaining an improved understanding of economic and social tradeoffs among competing uses (i.e., water for energy conversion versus food production, industrial and municipal uses, and environmental benefits of in situ water). The results of this exchange on research ideas and approaches thus aims at supporting decision-making in integrated food–energy–water planning and the prioritization of research investments.
Prof. Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water
- energy
- food
- nexus
- modeling
- data
- calibration
- integrated
- climate
- security
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