Institutional arrangements for beneficial regional cooperation on water, energy and food priority issues in the Eastern Nile Basin

Al‐Saidi, Mohammad; Hefny, Amr Mohamed Mahmoud El

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.05.009

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“…According to Gupta et al (2013), the global water crisis cannot be solved through technocratic and depoliticized management or engineering processes; it needs a radical political challenge, from a global to the local level (glocal). Since TBG has historically been focused on state and water-related issues, the nexus approach extends the scope to important sectors such as agriculture and energy (Al-Saidi and Hefny 2018).…”

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The conceptual basis of water-energy-food nexus governance: systematic literature review using network and discourse analysis

Urbinatti

Lázaro

Carvalho

et al. 2020

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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In the last decade, the debate on the governance of water, energy, and food (WEF) has intensified, spurring the emergence of the term "nexus governance." In general, the reduction of trade-offs and construction of synergies between WEF have been placed on the scientific, political, and economic agenda. However, although increasingly used, it is difficult to find a clear meaning and definition of what the term represents. Based on a systematic literature review (SLR), using text-mining and machine learning algorithms, this article investigates what are the conceptual basis of the nexus governance debate, and attempts to clarify the main themes, networks, and gaps within this literature. The analysis is based on quantitative and qualitative methods, combining social network analysis (SNA) and discourse analysis (DA). The results highlighted that twenty-four governance-related concepts support this literature, breaking down into eight groups: water and basin governance; environmental and systems governance; risk and resource security governance; economic governance; global governance; urban governance; integrative and cooperative governance; and "epistemic" and transdisciplinary governance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The conceptual basis of water-energy-food nexus governance: systematic literature review using network and discourse analysis

Urbinatti

Lázaro

Carvalho

et al. 2020

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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“…Another option is to reduce the reverse flow of water from water-scarce areas to water-rich areas caused by virtual water transfer, mainly occurring through internal trade [75]. To achieve this objective, incentive mechanisms for promoting water-saving technologies in industry [75], technical cooperation and technology transfer [23], and optimizing urban industries distribution between water-scarce and water-rich areas are available measures.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, rainwater is easily affected by climate change; water demand and water resource availability are affected by climatic conditions changes [21], which exacerbate the vulnerability of water resources [22]. As the diverse water nexus makes water management complicated, benefit balancing and institutional arrangements are therefore adopted to resolve water-use conflicts [23,24].…”

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Effect of Water-Saving Society Policy on Water Consumption in the Cities of China: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Zhao

2020

IJERPH

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The increased demand for water resources due to urban population and economic growth has worsened the urban water crisis. In order to address this issue, a policy of “developing a water-saving society” (namely, water-saving society policy) has been implemented in some Chinese cities. This study takes 285 cities at the prefecture level and above as the sample and uses the propensity score matching (PSM) method to analyze the effect of China’s urban water-saving society policy on the reduction of water consumption per CNY 10,000 gross domestic product (GDP) from 2005 to 2017. The results show that the water-saving society policy significantly (p < 0.01) reduced water consumption in the study period; however, the effects differed between cities with different water resource endowments, economic development level, and urban scale. Specifically, there was a positive water consumption reduction effect in cities in humid areas, with low economic development, or of large scale, while the effect was limited in cities in arid areas, with high economic development, or of small scale. Therefore, for areas where water resource supply is insufficient, water-saving policy should be designed and implemented suiting local conditions, and it is also necessary to explore more water sources.

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“…Some researchers identify the WEF nexus by establishing comprehensive frameworks [89,90]. Scholars try to establish WEF nexus systems through expert interviews [91,92]. A questionnaire survey [93,94] is also one of the methods used to build a nexus framework.…”

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Where Will ‘Water-Energy-Food’ Research Go Next?—Visualisation Review and Prospect

Wang

Wei

2022

Sustainability

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Research on water, energy, and food (WEF) is gradually becoming a global research hotspot in response to threats caused by the overexploitation of resources. In this study, 13,202 documents were selected from the WoS database and CiteSpace to judge frontier development in WEF research. In this study, visualisation research was carried out in 1547 papers that are most relevant to WEF research. The results show that WEF research has gradually increased during the research period, especially since 2015. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Hoff, and Bazilian have the greatest influence on the promotion of WEF research and there is significant cooperation between institutions and countries. The United States, China, and the United Kingdom were the main contributors. The WEF nexus has become the most important hotspot in WEF research. In this case, 823 papers focused on the WEF nexus were selected to demonstrate the research contents, frontiers and clusters, and methods of the WEF nexus. Applied researches on the WEF nexus, such as security issues and multi-objective optimisation are current frontiers. Some new topics such as the pandemic and geopolitics have not attracted enough attention relative to their potential importance. A comprehensive data platform for the inter-department of water, energy, and food subsystems should be constructed in the near future.

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Institutional arrangements for beneficial regional cooperation on water, energy and food priority issues in the Eastern Nile Basin

Cited by 39 publications

References 41 publications

The conceptual basis of water-energy-food nexus governance: systematic literature review using network and discourse analysis

The conceptual basis of water-energy-food nexus governance: systematic literature review using network and discourse analysis

Effect of Water-Saving Society Policy on Water Consumption in the Cities of China: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Where Will ‘Water-Energy-Food’ Research Go Next?—Visualisation Review and Prospect

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