The food‐energy‐water nexus: Transforming science for society
By Bridget R. Scanlon, B. Ruddell, Patrick M. Reed, Ruth I. Hook, C. Zheng, V. Tidwell, Stefan Siebert. 2017
231 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Emerging interdisciplinary science efforts are providing new understanding of the interdependence of food, energy, and water (FEW) systems. These science advances, in turn, provide critical information for coordinated management to improve the affordability, reliability, and environmental sustainability of FEW systems. Here we describe the current state of the FEW nexus and approaches to managing resource conflicts through reducing demand and increasing supplies, storage, and transport. Despite significant advances within the past decade, there are still many challenges for the scientific community. Key challenges are the need for interdisciplinary science related to the FEW nexus; ground‐based monitoring and modeling at local‐to‐regional scales; incorporating human and institutional behavior in models; partnerships among universities, industry, and government to develop policy relevant data; and systems modeling to evaluate trade‐offs associated with FEW decisions.
Subfields: Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Pollution, Water Science and Technology
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Citations in the corpus
- The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, background): “An often overlooked aspect of the water crisis is the emergent competition for water resources between the food and energy industries, which is expected to dominate the water security debate in the next few decades (Rosa et al., 2017, 2018; Scanlon et al., 2017).”
- Closing the yield gap while ensuring water sustainability (2018, background): “Future research is also required to analyze in which areas additional irrigation water can exacerbate water stress and intensify a competition for water between food and energy production (Scanlon et al 2017, Rosa et al 2018).”