Mapping the complexity of the food-energy-water nexus from the lens of Sustainable Development Goals in China

Zhang, Junze; Wang, Shuai; Pradhan, Prajal; Zhao, Wenwu; Fu, Bojie

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106357

Cited by 60 publications

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“…Although these interventions have proved to be practical and beneficial around the world, investment, equipment, and operational and management know‐how are required. Domestically, the application of this technology depends upon the willingness of the national government and buy‐in from the end‐users, as well as the trade‐off among water use sectors of the agricultural industry, the ecosystem and environment, and others (Zhang et al., 2022). Internationally, establishing a comprehensive systematic, integrated basin‐wide water management scheme would further harness water saving opportunities in the middle reaches, enhancing the reliability of sufficient water flows into the Aral Sea.…”

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Reviving the Aral Sea: A Hydro‐Eco‐Social Perspective

Wang,

Zhang,

Wang

et al. 2023

Earth's Future

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The rapid shrinkage and salinization of the Aral Sea over the last few decades has precipitated an environmental disaster, with widespread implications for people whose livelihoods depend on it. Although debated extensively, few viable strategies have yet been identified for reviving the Aral Sea. Here, we propose a hydro‐eco‐social framework to develop a viable, sustainable solution and explore its feasibility to resolve the Aral Sea problem. Based on eco‐environmental indicators, we contend that it is feasible to raise the Aral Sea by 40 m above the Baltic Sea level, while maintaining salinity levels tolerable for aquatic organisms, simultaneously reducing sandstorm risk by 58%. Basin‐wide water balance under climate change scenarios shows that this level can be supported through management interventions that reduce water usage by 22.0–23.2 km3/year and ensure sufficient recharge into the lake, without compromising socio‐economic opportunities. To implement this solution, we propose establishing a socio‐ecologically aligned water governance network for basin‐scale water management that has potential application for other, similarly declining, major lake systems.

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Reviving the Aral Sea: A Hydro‐Eco‐Social Perspective

Wang,

Zhang,

Wang

et al. 2023

Earth's Future

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“…The water-energy-food nexus underpins SDG6, SDG7 and SDG2, and their interactions also have direct or indirect impacts on the other SDGs. Zhang et al constructed China's water-energy-food nexus based on the SDGs nexus framework and quantified the interactions between the six targets (SDG2, SDG6, SDG7, SDG8, SDG12, and SDG15) through a panel vector autoregressive model, and found that the impact of SDG8 on changes in the water-energy-food nexus was generally higher than that of SDG12 [50]. Cheng et al used the coupled coordination model to quantitatively assess the coordinated development levels of SDG2, SDG6 and SDG7 in China, and the results show that the coupled coordination degree maintains a good trend and moves from primary coordination to good coordination, but the development levels of SDG6 and SDG7 still lag behind those of SDG2 [51].…”

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Bibliometric Analysis of Research Hotspots and Frontiers in Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Xin,

Dong,

Cui

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), established in 2015, are binding targets for monitoring the sustainable status of all countries in the world. Developing localized SDGs indicator systems, assessing SDGs progress comprehensively, and creating policy tools have gradually become the hotspots of scientific research and practical application of the SDGs. To systematically sort out the research status of the SDGs progress and identify problematic gaps, this paper uses bibliometric methods to analyse the scientific knowledge mapping of SDGs research, sort out the general characteristics, scientific cooperation, cutting-edge hotspots and future research trends of SDGs research. Besides, this paper promotes the integration of academic research into concrete practice by linking it to mainstream SDGs progress reports. The results show that: ① The amount of SDGs research literature in 2015–2022 is on a growing trend, and the existing research is characterised by multidisciplinary crossover. Research institutions such as Utrecht University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have contributed the most to SDGs research. ② The research hotspots include the SDGs practice of different responsible subjects, the comprehensive assessment of the progress of SDGs, the scientific research of SDGs indicators, and the research on the interaction between the goals of SDGs. ③ Environmental issues, indicators, energy transition, education and agriculture are the hot directions of SDGs research. Energy saving and carbon reduction, sustainable practices of supply chain management, and promoting the progress of environmental dimension goals are the focus of subsequent research. According to the results of the bibliometric analysis, future SDGs research should pay attention to strengthening multi-party cooperation, using innovative technologies to support the assessment of SDGs progress, and formulating sustainable development strategies.

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“…Thus, it can be inferred that the energy system can transfer toward a low-carbon and saving-water system. Zhang et al (2022) aimed to construct an enlarged food-energy-water (FEW) nexus framework for China to assess the associations between food (SDG2), water (SDG6), energy (SDG7), economic growth (SDG8), consumption and production (SDG12), and forest (SDG15) sectors. Results showed that SDG8 generally influences the alterations in the FEW nexus more compared to SDG12.…”

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Untapped potentials on a well‐endowed plate: A sustainable future catalogue for the harmony of renewable technologies with thewater‐energy‐climate‐SDGsnexus

Şanli

2023

Natural Resources Forum

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This study aims to present a roadmap on which optimal solutions can be adopted for a sustainable water and energy management by focusing on the relationships among “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, “Water‐Energy”, “Innovation‐Technology” and “Capacity‐Generation” blocks. The findings reveal that technological innovations are the core of sustainable solutions. An optimal bundle for policy tools should take SDG3, SDG10, SDG11, SDG12, SDG16, CH4‐N2O emissions, access to clean fuels, wastewater treatment and COVID‐19 major drivers into account primarily to explain the water‐energy nexus. Among the five worst‐performing technologies are hydrogen, CCUS, fuel cells, energy efficiency and electromobility‐electric energy management. Considering the constructed four scenarios together; levelized cost of electricity, global horizontal irradiation and photovoltaic (PV) power output seasonality are the only significant PV potential indicators despite their low impacts.

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Mapping the complexity of the food-energy-water nexus from the lens of Sustainable Development Goals in China

Cited by 60 publications

References 69 publications

Reviving the Aral Sea: A Hydro‐Eco‐Social Perspective

Reviving the Aral Sea: A Hydro‐Eco‐Social Perspective

Bibliometric Analysis of Research Hotspots and Frontiers in Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Untapped potentials on a well‐endowed plate: A sustainable future catalogue for the harmony of renewable technologies with thewater‐energy‐climate‐SDGsnexus

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