Session at EFITA2017 // Agrifood system and process engineering
The session at EFITA, the European Conference dedicated to the Future Use of ICT in the Agri-food Sector, Bioresource and Biomass Sectors, waits for…
Project // Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy, and Land project (IS-WEL)
A new project, Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy, and Land, aims to identify integrated approaches to energy, water, food, and ecosystem…
Vacancy // Energy Modeler/Researcher at IIASA
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) near Vienna in Austria, is looking to recruit a motivated and talented researcher to…
Online Debate // Can 'nexus thinking' alleviate global water, food and energy pressures?
Online debate organised by The Guardian. With demand for the world's three most precious resources only set to grow, a new approach must be put into…
What is so special about the water-energy-food nexus?
By Dennis Wichelns. Describing connections across policy domains is helpful, but the focus on water, energy and food is discretionary and limiting.
Webinar // Food, Water, Climate Change, Energy - Strategic thinking on the most pressing challenges for organisations, companies, and governments
Webinar with Valérie D’Hoedt-Meyer, Programme Director, Executive Certificate Programmes on Environmental Governance of the Graduate Institute Geneva.
Tools/Documentation // Developing the Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Security Index Tools - Toward a Global Standardized, Quantitative, and Transparent Resource Assessment
More than 2 billion people around the world, especially in developing countries, do not have access to high-quality services related to food, water,…
Tools // Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Index
The interactive Pardee RAND Food-Energy-Water Index enables the measurement of the current state of food, water, and energy security and allows for…
Slides // SIM4Nexus - A Novel Approach towards Improving Decision-making for Resource Efficieny, based on the Water-Land-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus
By Chrysi Laspidou, University of Thessaly. This presentation provides an overview of the SIM4NEXUS project, its objectives, models, and progress.
Food-Energy-Water Nexus // Quantifying Embodied Energy and GHG Emissions from Irrigation through Virtual Water Transfers in Food Trade
By Nemi Vora, Apurva Shah, Melissa M. Bilec and Vikas Khanna. We present a network model of interstate food trade and report comprehensive estimates…
Water-Energy Nexus // New Research Project on the Water-Energy Nexus
The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is currently developing a project researching the Water Energy Nexus. The project studies water use related…
Water-Energy Nexus Webinar // Water conservation in coal-fired power plants
Webinar by IEA Clean Coal Centre. The vulnerability of the power generation industry to constraints in water availability is widespread and growing,…
Okhla Times // Water, food and energy scarcity could lead to World War-III: Oz Professor
Expressing concern over the growing global shortage of water, food and energy, Prof. Akhtar Kalam, Head of Engineering, Leader- Smart Energy Research…
Transboundary Basins // Reconciling resource uses in transboundary basins: assessment of the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus in the Sava River Basin
By UNECE. The Sava nexus assessment identifies a number of benefits both related to and independent of economic activities that are generated by…
Balkan Green Energy News // UNECE publishes report on nexus assessment of Sava River Basin resources
Coordinating assessment of water, energy and agricultural needs among riparian countries is the key to sustainable development in the Sava River…