The Energy Nexus Group – An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda

Cader, Catherina; Daykova, Mariana; Dumitrescu, Raluca; Pelz, Setu; Koepke, Mathias

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2016.07.141

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“…A second opportunity lies in better understanding the place of resilience thinking in these cross-system WEF nexus dynamics. A popular yet partial means to obtain insights on resilience of crosssystem dynamics is to study synergies and tradeoffs between WEF systems (Jarvie et al, 2015;Cader et al, 2016;Deryugina and Konar, 2017;He et al, 2019). However, most of these assessments consider synergies and tradeoffs only between subsystems within the larger WEF nexus and overlook cross-system resilience linkages.…”

Section: Improving the Understanding Of Resilience Across The Wef Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first is the development of tools to improve the understanding of crosssector, cross-scale, cross-domain, and complex dynamics. Proposed examples are scenario building (e.g., Hoolohan et al, 2019), trade-off analysis (e.g., Cader et al, 2016), integrated assessment modeling (e.g., Johnson et al, 2019), environmental footprinting (e.g., Vanham et al, 2019;Hogeboom, 2020) and agent-based modeling (e.g., van Voorn et al, 2019). The second direction is to develop tools and methods that support more consistent policy formulation.…”

Section: Tools and Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Resilience Meets the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Mapping the Research Landscape

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Deribe

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Resilience thinking is increasingly promoted to address some of the grand challenges of the 21st century: providing water, energy, and food to all, while staying within the limits of the Earth system that is undergoing (climate) change. Concurrently, a partially overlapping body of literature on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has emerged through the realization that water, energy, and food systems are intricately linked—and should therefore be understood and managed in conjunction. This paper reviews recent scientific publications at the intersection of both concepts in order to i) examine the status quo on resilience thinking as it is applied in WEF nexus studies; ii) map the research landscape along major research foci and conceptualizations; iii) and propose a research agenda of topics distilled from gaps in the current research landscape. We identify key conceptualizations of both resilience and nexus framings that are used across studies, as we observe pronounced differences regarding the nexus’ nature, scope, emphasis and level of integration, and resilience’s scope, type, methodological and thematic foci. Promising research avenues include i) improving the understanding of resilience in the WEF nexus across scales, sectors, domains, and disciplines; ii) developing tools and indicators to measure and assess resilience of WEF systems; iii) bridging the implementation gap brought about by (governing) complexity; iv) integrating or reconciling resilience and nexus thinking; v) and considering other development principles and frameworks toward solving WEF challenges beside and beyond resilience, including control, efficiency, sustainability, and equity.

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Section: Improving the Understanding Of Resilience Across The Wef Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%