An integrative approach for the water-energy-food nexus in beef cattle production: A simulation of the proposed model to Brazil

Neto, Ruy de Castro Sobrosa; Berchin, Issa Ibrahim; Magtoto, Mica; Berchin, Stephanie; Xavier, Wlamir Gonçalves; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.200

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“…A more comprehensive illustration of existing nexus research is shown in Figure 6, in which black lines represent a focus on the study of a particular resource (e.g., food, energy, or water), yellow lines indicate the study of integrated systems with two principal resources, and gray dashed lines emphasize the interlinkages of subsections of different nexuses. In terms of focus and level of integration, 29 papers focused on the FEW nexus, but these mostly aimed to conduct general analysis and systematic review, whereas 10 papers focused on water (Larsen & Drews, 2019;Rosa & D'Odorico, 2019), 5 on food (Abdelkader et al, 2018;Neto et al, 2018;Zhang, Campana et al, 2018), 4 on energy (Yuan et al, 2018;Ahjum et al, 2018;Whitney et al, 2019), 9 on water-energy nexus (Engstr€ om et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2017;Liu et al, 2019), 2 on energyfood (Hanes et al, 2018), and 1 on water-food (Zhang & Vesselinov, 2017). The rest of the articles applied nexus research from various angles.…”

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Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

Chang

Hossain

Valencia

et al. 2020

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

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The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via decentralized and/ or centralized facilities, there is an acute need to optimize FEW infrastructures by considering cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs with respect to multiple sustainability indicators. This paper identifies, categorizes, and analyzes global trends with respect to contemporary FEW technology metrics that highlights the possible optimal integration of a broad spectrum of technology hubs for possible cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs. The challenges related to multiscale and multiagent modeling processes for the simulation of urban FEW systems were discussed with respect to the aspects of scaling-up, optimization process, and risk assessment. Our review reveals that this field is growing at a rapid pace and the previous selection of analytical methodologies, nexus criteria, and sustainability indicators largely depended on individual FEW nexus conditions disparately, and full-scale cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs CONTACT Ni-Bin Chang

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Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

Chang

Hossain

Valencia

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Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

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“…For example, some nexuses only highlighted water resources (Daher, Hannibal et al, 2019;Larsen & Drews, 2019;Rosa & D'Odorico, 2019), food production (Abdelkader et al, 2018;Neto et al, 2018;Zhang, Campana et al, 2018), or energy generation (Mroue et al, 2019;Nouri et al, 2019;Wang, Fath et al, 2019), with few interdependent relationships. Others focused on case-based engineering practices integrating food-water or water-energy systems (Di Felice et al, 2019;Engstr€ om et al, 2017;Hanes et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2017;Wicaksono & Kang, 2019).…”

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Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (I): Global trend and technology metrics

Chang

Hossain

Valencia

et al. 2020

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

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The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via decentralized and/or centralized facilities, there is an acute need to optimize FEW infrastructures by considering cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs with respect to multiple sustainability indicators. This paper identifies, categorizes, and analyzes global trends with respect to contemporary FEW technology metrics that highlights the possible optimal integration of a broad spectrum of technology hubs for possible cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs. The challenges related to multiscale and multiagent modeling processes for the simulation of urban FEW systems were discussed with respect to the aspects of scaling-up, optimization process, and risk assessment. Our review reveals that this field is growing at a rapid pace and the previous selection of analytical methodologies, nexus criteria, and sustainability indicators largely depended on individual FEW nexus conditions disparately, and full-scale cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs were very rare. Therefore, the potential full-scale technology integration in three ongoing cases of urban FEW systems in Miami (the United States), Marseille (France), and Amsterdam (the Netherlands) were demonstrated in due purpose finally.

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“…Water shortages, very depletable aquifers, deforested regions, natural catastrophes, high food costs, poor government institutions, high energy costs and shaky governance all contribute to increased poverty and migration in Central America's cities, posing a danger of social instability [72]. Brazil is one of the nations in South America that might be impacted the most by climate change, and it provides an illustration of the interconnection amongst WEF systems [79]. This is because climate change has a significant correlation with environmental and social deterioration, and agriculture is the country's primary economic sector.…”

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A Comprehensive Review on Types, Methods and Different Regions Related to Water–Energy–Food Nexus

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Liú

2021

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Water, food, and energy are three of the most important resources for long-term survival and development. The term “nexus” is used to underline the need of controlling these primary components collectively rather than separately because they are interconnected and linked. With the purpose of better understanding nexus thinking and showcasing nexus analysis approaches and tools, this study explores the current state of the approach to the water–energy–food relationship, which has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. Water–energy, water–food, water–energy–food, water–energy, and climate are the four forms of nexus. This paper examines a variety of methodologies based on their principal objectives and provides a basic overview of a wide range of currently available methods and instruments for analyzing the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. According to this study, the quantity of studies on the water–energy–food nexus has increased significantly, as the scientific community’s ability to analyze water, food, and energy interlinkages at a greater resolution. The integration and optimization of this multi-centric nexus is explored, with focus on four regions—Asia, Europe, America, and Africa—as a case study. The WEF nexus should be used in case studies to help illustrate its intricacies. Furthermore, this study builds a methodology and frameworks to find study linkages between water, energy, food, and other components, for a nexus analysis and discuss the major challenges and its solutions. This study also includes a scientometric analysis that looks at the countries and keyword mapping. Furthermore, the study is being planned, with an emphasis on quantitative analysis of the water–energy–food nexus which is helpful for the water security at local and global scale. This study aids in the coordination of research efforts to solve the difficult issues in nexus research and create sustainable and adaptable water, energy, and food systems.

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An integrative approach for the water-energy-food nexus in beef cattle production: A simulation of the proposed model to Brazil

Cited by 36 publications

References 64 publications

Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (I): Global trend and technology metrics

A Comprehensive Review on Types, Methods and Different Regions Related to Water–Energy–Food Nexus

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