The energy-water agriculture nexus: the past, present and future of holistic resource management via remote sensing technologies

Sanders, Kelly T.; Masri, Sami F.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.01.034

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“…water-food nexus (see Brown and Halweil, 1998;Hoekstra and Hung, 2005;Dalin et al, 2014;Antonelli and Tamea, 2015;Vanham, 2016), food-energy nexus (see Karkacier and Goktolga, 2005;Abdelradi and Serra, 2015), and water-energy nexus (see Scott et al, 2011;Hardy et al, 2012;Pfister et al, 2012;Walker et al, 2013;Vilanova and Balestieri, 2015;Murrant et al, 2015;Pradeleix et al, 2015;Gua et al, 2016;Vieira and Ghisi, 2016;Wong and Pecora, 2016). Current WEFN publications have become more sophisticated and capable of investigating all three subsystems: for example, biomass or biofuel crop production (see Gerbens-Leenes et al, 2009;Bazilian et al, 2013;Miara et al, 2014;Mirzabaev et al, 2015), future impact scenarios of climate change on WEFN (see Ringler et al, 2016), incorporating satellite remote sensing analysis to assess the WEFN (see review by Sanders and Masri, 2016), modeling water-energy-food interdependencies and management (Bazilian et al, 2011;Daher and Mohtar, 2015;Al-Ansari et al, 2015;Zimmerman et al, 2016;Zhang and Vesselinov, 2017), and the consumption of water and energy in the production of greenhouse tomatoes in Spain (Irabien and Darton, 2016).…”

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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in East Asia: A tele-connected value chain analysis using inter-regional input-output analysis

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Population and economic growth pose unique challenges in securing sufficient water, energy, and food to meet demand at the sub-national (regional), national, and supra-national level. An increasing share of this demand is met through trade and imports. The unprecedented rapid growth, extent, and complexity of global value chains (GVCs) since the 1980s have reshaped global trade. The GVCs-and new economic patterns of regionalization-affect the demands on water, energy, and food within countries and across global supply chains. East Asia is of particular interest due to the region"s rapid economic growth, substantial population size, high interdependence of the region"s economies, and varying degree of resource availability. While greater interdependence across the region has increased the efficiency of production and trade, these activities require the input of water-energy-food and generate disturbances in the environment. The transnational interregional input-output approach is utilized in a tele-connected Water-Energy-Food Nexus (WEFN) analysis of the East Asia GVC to assess competing demands for these resources and environmental outcomes. This analysis demonstrates the hidden virtual flows of water, energy, and food embodied in intraregional and transnational interregional trade. China"s current national export oriented economic growth strategy in East Asia is not sustainable from the WEFN perspective. In terms of water-energy-food, China is a net virtual exporter to Japan and South Korea. China"s prioritization of economic growth and trade in low value added and pollution intensive sectors consumes a great amount of water-energy-food within its territory to satisfy consumers" demands in Japan and South Korea. Japan"s Kanto and Kinki regions and South Korea"s Sudokwon region were the major beneficiaries while China bore the environmental burden associated with the production of exports. For example, net virtual exports from China"s East region included over 1.2 billion m 3 of scarce water and 61.3 million metric (CO 2 equivalent) tons of greenhouse gases (i.e. CO 2 , NH 4 , and N 2 O) and 2 million metric tons of SO x emissions. Trade is an important mechanism for overcoming resource bottlenecks, but, taking into account environmental linkages, regional specialization is not necessarily mutually beneficial. This analysis demonstrates a mismatch between regional water-energy-food availability and final resource consumption and the lack of attention for environmental impacts in national economic growth strategies. Resource scarce countries like China must, therefore, incorporate trade-off decisions between pursuing national economic growth, incurring environmental degradation, and food security into strategic regional development policies.

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“…There are various forms of commercially-available drones encompassing rotary and fixed-wing, each with associated flight characteristics and limitations such as the ability for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) and the requirement for various sizes of landing zones. Drones are revolutionizing scientific research in multiple fields including archaeology (De Reu et al, 2016), natural hazards (Jordan and Napier, 2016;Mateos et al, 2017;Serban et al, 2016;Tamminga et al, 2015), ecology (Anderson and Gaston, 2013;Faye et al, 2016;Flynn and Chapra, 2014;Ouedraogo et al, 2014;Ventura et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2014), forestry (Masek et al, 2015;Padua et al, 2017;Paneque-Galvez et al, 2014;Puliti et al, 2015;Sankey et al, 2017;Tang and Shao, 2015), sedimentary geology (Chesley et al, 2017;Nieminski and Graham, 2017), glaciology (Bhardwaj et al, 2016;De Michele et al, 2016;Westoby et al, 2015), geothermal research (Nishar et al, 2016), atmospheric chemistry (Caturegli et al, 2016;Schrod et al, 2017), hydrology (Bandini et al, 2017;Spence and Mengistu, 2016), mining (Jakob et al, 2017;Tong et al, 2015), environmental science (Hird et al, 2017;Mlambo et al, 2017;Sanders and Masri, 2016), and structural geology (Bemis et al, 2014).…”

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Drones in carbonate geology: Opportunities and challenges, and application in diagenetic dolomite geobody mapping

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Vandeginste

Hampson

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Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…The growing interest in adopting a systemic vision to deal with the challenges of sustainability has motived the appearance of new interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary areas of research. For instance, the complex relationships between mankind and the environment are being studied and modeled at multiple scales, through the analyses of the interdependences involved in the management of different natural resources: energy, minerals, water, soil and food [57,[96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105]. There are also ongoing debates on the management of mineral resources from a more holistic standpoint (Figure 2), which considers the potential scarcity of some mineral resources for future generations, and strategies for recycling and efficient use of resources.…”

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Sustainability in the Minerals Industry: Seeking a Consensus on Its Meaning

Segura-Salazar

Tavares

2018

Sustainability

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Sustainability science has received progressively greater attention worldwide, given the growing environmental concerns and socioeconomic inequity, both largely resulting from a prevailing global economic model that has prioritized profits. It is now widely recognized that mankind needs to adopt measures to change the currently unsustainable production and consumption patterns. The minerals industry plays a fundamental role in this context, having received attention through various initiatives over the last decades. Several of these have been, however, questioned in practice. Indeed, a consensus on the implications of sustainability in the minerals industry has not yet been reached. The present work aims to deepen the discussion on how the mineral sector can improve its sustainability. An exhaustive literature review of peer-reviewed academic articles published on the topic in English over the last 25 years, as well as complementary references, has been carried out. From this, it became clear that there is a need to build a better definition of sustainability for the mineral sector, which has been proposed here from a more holistic viewpoint. Finally, and in light of this new perspective, several of the trade-offs and synergies related to sustainability of the minerals industry are discussed in a cross-sectional manner.

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The energy-water agriculture nexus: the past, present and future of holistic resource management via remote sensing technologies

Cited by 54 publications

References 162 publications

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in East Asia: A tele-connected value chain analysis using inter-regional input-output analysis

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in East Asia: A tele-connected value chain analysis using inter-regional input-output analysis

Drones in carbonate geology: Opportunities and challenges, and application in diagenetic dolomite geobody mapping

Sustainability in the Minerals Industry: Seeking a Consensus on Its Meaning

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