Sustainable development and the water–energy–food nexus: A perspective on livelihoods

Biggs, Eloise M.; Bruce, Eleanor; Boruff, Bryan; Duncan, John; Horsley, Julia; Pauli, Natasha; McNeill, Kellie; Neef, Andreas; Ogtrop, Floris van; Curnow, Jayne; Haworth, Billy Tusker; Duce, Stephanie; Imanari, Yukihiro

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.08.002

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“…The results shown in Table 3 are calculated using equations (14) and (16) and account for energy use intensities in water and food inflows. Table 4 shows the results of the food use intensities in energy and food inflows calculated using Equations (17) and (18).…”

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“…Quantitative nexus approaches will certainly provide effective support for the communication between science and sustainable water energy food policies [1] [2] [7] [8]. The development of nexus tools for analyzing impacts of the above mentioned drivers on WEF resources is one of today's key challenges [9]- [16]. A practical and ma-thematically-based quantitative assessment framework of the WEF nexus is newly proposed by [1] (Q-Nexus Model).…”

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Evaluation of Technology Change Effects on Quantitative Assessment of Water, Energy and Food Nexus

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The quantitative assessment framework of the water, energy and food (WEF) nexus proposed by [1] permits the analysis of the WEF as an interconnected system of resources that directly and indirectly affect one another. The model performs simulation of policy options and scenarios that respond to quantitative variations of the use of WEF resources. One of the key outcomes of the mathematical formulation of the model is the WEF nexus intersectoral technology matrix. In order to take advantages and analyzing policy options of adopting high efficient intersectoral use technologies, WEF intersectoral use intensities and intersectoral allocation coefficients are introduced to the technology matrix of the nexus model proposed in [1]. The developed method is then applied to evaluate the WEF nexus case study of Lebanon. Lastly, the conclusions and further developments are presented.

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Evaluation of Technology Change Effects on Quantitative Assessment of Water, Energy and Food Nexus

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2017

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“…To become more effective in generating sustainable landscape solutions, landscape ecology should integrate ecological and social mechanisms into system thinking. Concepts such as social-ecological networks and nexus thinking (Biggs et al 2015;Fürst et al 2017) could be further developed by landscape ecologists as a basis for spatially explicit analytical and design approaches. In the following we propose four fundamental landscape ecological contributions to sustainability science.…”

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“…Even the very name of the approach is not consistent, with the three nexus sectors written in differing order and the term "security" both included and excluded from the term. The actual number of nexus sectors also differs, focusing sometimes only on two sectors (e.g., [13,14]) or extended to additional sectors such as climate change [15,16], ecosystems [17] and livelihoods [18]. The terms change too, for example, food is sometimes replaced by land [19].…”

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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Transboundary Context: Insights from Large Asian Rivers

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Abstract:The water-energy-food nexus is a topical subject for research and practice, reflecting the importance of these sectors for humankind and the complexity and magnitude of the challenges they are facing. While the nexus as a concept is not yet mature or fully tested in practice, it has already encouraged a range of approaches in a variety of contexts. This article provides a set of definitions recognizing three perspectives that see the nexus as an analytical tool, governance framework and as an emerging discourse. It discusses the implications that an international transboundary context brings to the nexus and vice versa. Based on a comparative analysis of three Asian regions-Central Asia, South Asia and the Mekong Region-and their related transboundary river basins, we propose that the transboundary context has three major implications: diversity of scales and perspectives, importance of state actors and importance of politics. Similarly, introducing the nexus as an approach in a transboundary context has a potential to provide new resources and approaches, alter existing actor dynamics and portray a richer picture of relationships. Overall, the significance of water-energy-food linkages and their direct impacts on water allocation mean that the nexus has the potential to complement existing approaches also in the transboundary river basins.

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Sustainable development and the water–energy–food nexus: A perspective on livelihoods

Cited by 710 publications

References 25 publications

Evaluation of Technology Change Effects on Quantitative Assessment of Water, Energy and Food Nexus

Evaluation of Technology Change Effects on Quantitative Assessment of Water, Energy and Food Nexus

How can landscape ecology contribute to sustainability science?

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and the Transboundary Context: Insights from Large Asian Rivers

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