Modelling and assessment
Nexus Assessment // When Defining Boundaries for Nexus Analysis, Let the Data Speak
By Oliver Taherzadeh, Mike Bithell, Keith Richards. Within this study, the authors describe how the partiality of the FEW-nexus overlooks major…
Research Article // Evaluation of Water—Energy—Food—Economy Coupling Efficiency Based on Three-Dimensional Network Data Envelopment Analysis Model
By Zhiyu Zhang and Yejun Xu. This paper establishes a three-dimensional network structure to describe the water–energy–food–economy (WEF-Eco) system…
Nexus Regional Dialogue Central Asia // Nexus approach is widely promoted in Turkmenistan
On February 7 and 10, 33 lecturers and professors from the Academy of Civil Service under the President of Turkmenistan (Ashgabat) and the Turkmen…
Research Article // Role of water-energy-food nexus in environmental management and climate action
By Lalawmpuii, Prabhat Kumar Rai. This article investigates the methodological paradigm and application of WEF Nexus in an inter-related framework…
Research Article // Understanding implications of climate change and socio-economic development for the water-energy-food Nexus: A meta-regression analysis
By Xinxueqi Han and colleagues. Based on meta-regression approaches, this study quantifies the changes in food, energy production and water…
Research Article // Sustainable agriculture supply chain network design considering water-energy-food Nexus using queuing system: A hybrid robust possibilistic programming
By Komeyl Baghizadeh, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Kannan Govindan and Mahboubeh Ziyarati. This article proposes a mathematical Mixed-Integer Nonlinear…
Research Article // The Five Ws of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A Reflexive Approach to Enable the Production of Actionable Knowledge
With this contribution, the authors offer an interpretation of the literature on the nexus that is accessible, and not overly specialized, with the…
Publication // An analytical framework to assess SDG targets within the context of WEFE nexus in the Mediterranean region
By Anna Malago´, Sara Comero, Fayçal Bouraoui, Cevza Melek Kazezyılmaz-Alhan, Bernd Manfred Gawlik, Peter Easton, Chrysi Laspidou. The European…
Nexus Modelling // Towards Ranking the Water–Energy–Food–Land Use–Climate Nexus Interlinkages for Building a Nexus Conceptual Model with a Heuristic Algorithm
By Chrysi S. Laspidou, Nikolaos Mellios and Dimitris Kofinas. In this article, a practical heuristic approach for gaining a systemic and contextual…
Report // Supporting transboundary water cooperation: Learning from water-stressed basins in West Africa
By Alfonso Medinilla and Katja Sergejeff. This paper builds on existing and new analysis on two transboundary basins, namely the Niger river and…
Research Article // Nexus between economic growth, energy use, urbanization, agricultural productivity, and carbon dioxide emissions: New insights from Bangladesh
By Asif Raihan and colleagues. The present study empirically explores the nexus between economic growth, energy use, urbanization, agricultural…
Research Article // Sustainable WEF Nexus Management: A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Models of Social, Economic, Policy, and Institutional Developments
By Ebun Akinsete and colleagues. With the inefficient management of natural resources recognized as the biggest obstacle to achieving sustainable WEF…
Research article // Developing meaningful water-energy-food-environment (WEFE) nexus indicators with stakeholders: An Upper White Nile case study
By Annika Schlemm and colleagues. The majority of existing WEFE nexus indicators and tools tend to be developed without consideration of…
Research Article // Infrastructure Shaming and Consequences for Management of Urban WEF Security Nexus in China and India
By Daphne Gondhalekar and Jörg E. Drewes. This study demonstrates that even when water stress and awareness are high as in Shaxi and Leh, it is not a…
The Lake Kivu and Ruzizi River Project// German Aerospace Centre presents results from their assessment of erosion risk in the Lake Kivu and Ruzizi River basin.
This article highlights the findings of the study conducted by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) on the risk of erosion calculated using earth…