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Linking the Economics of Water, Energy, and Food // A Nexus Modeling Approach
By Perrihan Al-Riffai, Clemens Breisinger, Md. Hossain Alam Mondal, Claudia Ringler, Manfred Wiebelt and Tingju Zhu. The authors use an innovative…
The Nexus: Reconsidering Environmental Security and Adaptive Capacity
By R. de Grenade, L.House-Peters, C.A. Scott, B. Thapa, M. Mills-Novoa, A. Gerlak and K. Verbist. The water–energy–food nexus has emerged as a…
Research Overview // The Energy-Water-Food Nexus
By D.L. Keairns, R.C. Darton, and A. Irabien. As the global population grows in size and increasingly lives in cities, and with lifestyles based on…
Modelling // Modeling the Nexus across Water Supply, Power Generation and Environment Systems using the System Dynamics Approach: Hehuang Region, China
This paper aims to model the WPE nexus in the China’s Hehuang Region by using the system dynamics approach. Six nonlinear ordinary differential…
Implementation // Challenges in Operationalizing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
By J. Liu, H. Yang, C. Cudennec, A.K. Gain, H. Hoff, R. Lawford, J. Qi, L. de Strasser, P.T. Yillia and C. Zheng. Concerns about the…
Climate Change and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus // Insights from Policy and Practice in Tanzania
By Joanna Pardoe, Declan Conway, Emilinah Namaganda, Katharine Vincent, Andrew J. Dougill and Japhet J. Kashaigili. The threat of climate change is…
SPIS // Solar Pumping: The Basics
By the World Bank. Solar photovoltaic water pumping (SWP) uses energy from solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to power an electric water pump. The entire…
Solar-powered Irrigation Systems // The Benefits and Risks of Solar-powered Irrigation - A Global Overview
By Hans Hartung and Lucie Pluschke. This report takes stock of the experiences with SPIS around the world. What are the real costs and benefits of…
Nexus in the MENA Region // Assessment of the Water-Energy Nexus in the Municipal Water Sector in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
By Homoud Al-Mutrafi, Waleed Al-Zubari, Alaa El-Sadek and Ibrahim Abdel Gelil. This paper performs an assessment of the water-energy nexus in the…
Towards a Relational Understanding of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus // Analysis of Embeddedness and Governance in the Upper Blue Nile Region of Ethiopia
By Christian Stein, Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Jennie Barron. Given the need for transformative changes towards more sustainable, integrated management of…
Membrane Distillation at the Water-Energy Nexus // Limits, Opportunities, and Challenges
By Akshay Deshmukh, Chanhee Boo, Vasiliki Karanikola, et al. Energy-efficient desalination and water treatment technologies play a critical role in…
Getting to Grips with the Water-Energy-Food Nexus?
By Alexandra Howe. Global demand for food, energy and water is increasing and these resources cannot be considered in isolation. Chemical engineers…
Nexus and Security // Critical Thinking on the New Security Convergence in Energy, Food, Climate and Water
By Shilpi Srivastava and Lyla Mehta. Not Another Nexus? In recent years, the notion of the nexus has gained immense traction in the domain of natural…
SDGs // Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals by their Energy Inter-linkages
By David L. McCollum, Luis Gomez Echeverri, Sebastian Busch, et al. While governments throughout the world have already declared the SDGs to be…
Governance // Water for Energy in China
By Liao Xiawei, Jim W. Hall and Nick Eyre. Water and energy are both critical and fundamental to human society’s development and prosperity. They are…
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