Nexus Assessment // Data for WEF Nexus Analysis: a Review of Issues
By Bruce A. McCarl, Yingqian Yang, Raghavan Srinivasan, Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos, Rabi H. Mohtar. The purpose of this review is to discuss challenges regarding assembly and use of water-energy-food (WEF) nexus data. WEF nexus analysis endeavors including nexus-wide-scoped data are relatively new although component data has been gathered for years. However, such data are not frequently comprehensive across all WEF sectors nor are they typically integrated into a WEF wide system database. Data systems covering the full set of WEF domains are evolving and there are challenges that must be faced to better support WEF system wide analysis.