Sustainable assessment of Water-Energy-Food Nexus at regional level through a multi-stakeholder optimization approach

Cansino-Loeza, Brenda; Ponce-Ortega, José María

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125194

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“…In addition, the optimisation of the nexus can also promote the overall sustainability of the WEF nexus. Cansino-Loeza et al [70] presented a multi-objective optimization model that involves the sustainable production of water, energy, and food. Results showed that water reuse is crucial to improving the WEF nexus sustainability.…”

Section: Integrated Research Of the Wef Nexusmentioning

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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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Section: Integrated Research Of the Wef Nexusmentioning

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

Wang

Wei

2022

Sustainability

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“…The main objectives were to evaluate the level of convergence of nexus understanding and to identify barriers and opportunities regarding improving communication among stakeholders. There are many studies that have applied participatory approaches in WEF research, including fuzzy-cognitive mapping, online investigation and snowball sampling [110], interviews, focus group discussions and vision-building workshops [111], and multi-objective optimization methods for WEF nexus management and the involvement of multiple stakeholders [112,113]. These studies demonstrate that multiple actors should work together for continuous improvements to make the nexus approach useful in the planning, evaluation, and decision-making processes.…”

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Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Critical Review, Practical Applications, and Prospects for Future Research

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This paper presents knowledge gaps and critiques on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus that have emerged since the concept of the WEF nexus was proposed by the World Economic Forum and the Bonn 2011 Conference. Furthermore, this study analyses current innovations on the WEF nexus concept, applications, and impacts during the period of 2012–2020. This begins by reviewing ten WEF nexus frameworks developed by international organizations and researchers. On this basis, several gaps and omissions in nexus frameworks are obvious in almost all developed frameworks. Studies that start to address some of these gaps are analysed, but they are relatively few and do not address all gaps. Several proposed improvements to nexus frameworks are identified to narrow the gaps and put the concept into practical implementation in WEF resources management and governance. Four principles and the perspective of “from local to global” for future WEF nexus framework development and analysis are suggested to ensure that the security of water, energy, and food resources can be achieved sustainably in local communities. This will improve the impact of national and global ambitions on WEF security.

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“…IS creates value through the recycling of by-products and wastes within the EIPs. Stakeholders play a key role in all stages of decision-making process, which include any stakeholder affected by decisions and actions [2][3][4][5] . They have different objectives for decisionmaking, such as, sponsors are concerned about the economics of the project, governments are considered the social and environmental as well as economic impacts, and participating plants are focused on the economic benefits.…”

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A System Framework with the Multi-Stakeholder Decision Method for the Optimization of CHOSYNs

Wang

Deng

et al. 2023

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Carbon-Hydrogen-Oxygen Symbiosis Networks (CHOSYNs) enable the centralized use of major atoms among substances.Previous decision-making in CHOSYNs researches always neglect the perspectives of multi-stakeholder, who have a claim on the cash flow of projects and may affect the sustainable operations of CHOSYNs. Hence, this paper proposes a system framework with the Multi-stakeholder decision method to balance the conflicts between stakeholders in the development of a CHOSYN. Multi-stakeholder decision method, which considers the benefits of each stakeholder, can gain a high satisfaction solution by using the dissatisfaction percentage (%D) and weight (ω). First, baseline the sources to get candidates by the multi-scale atomic targeting method. Then the simple objective and the multi-objective optimization method are used to obtain the Utopian point and the Nadir point respectively. Finally, the Multi-stakeholder decision method is used to select the optimal solution. A case study is solved to exhibit the advantages of the framewor

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Sustainable assessment of Water-Energy-Food Nexus at regional level through a multi-stakeholder optimization approach

Cited by 52 publications

References 30 publications

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

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

Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Critical Review, Practical Applications, and Prospects for Future Research

A System Framework with the Multi-Stakeholder Decision Method for the Optimization of CHOSYNs

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