Modelling and assessment
Bridging Science and Policy in Water-Energy-Food Nexus // Using the Q-Nexus Model for Informing Policy Making
By Ali Karnib. Water, energy and food (WEF) systems are highly interconnected and they directly and indirectly affect one another. Science based…
Modelling // Quantifying and Mapping of Water-related Ecosystem Services for Enhancing the Security of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus in Tropical Data–sparse Catchment
By Mesfin Sahle, Osamu Saito, Christine Fürst and Kumelachew Yeshitela. The food-water-energy nexus concept helps to produce an integrative solutions…
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…
Semantic Analysis // Supporting Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research of Water-Energy-Food Nexus by Means of Ontology Engineering
By Terukazu Kumazawa, Keishiro Hara, Aiko Endo and Makoto Taniguchi. In this article the authors focus on ontology engineering, which is a base…
Tools // New Version of the Nexus Tools Platform 2.0
The Nexus Tools Platform aims at facilitating the application of a cross-sectoral Nexus Approach to environmental resources management. This requires…
MAXUS // Synergizing water, food and energy policy
By Rogier E. A. Burger. In this study an optimization model framework is proposed, titled ‘MAXUS’, specifically designed to address the shortfalls of…
WEAP Tool // Release of Major New Version of SEI's Powerful "Water Evaluation And Planning" Software
Freshwater management challenges are increasingly common. Allocation of limited water resources between agricultural, municipal and environmental…
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…
Report // Water-Energy Nexus: Excerpt from the World Energy Outlook 2016
This excerpt from the World Energy Outlook 2016 looks at the critical interplay between water and energy, with an emphasis on the stress points that…
Research Article // Prospects for Rooftop Farming System Dynamics: An Action to Stimulate Water-Energy-Food Nexus Synergies toward Green Cities of Tomorrow
By Angela Huang and Fi-John Chang. This study contributes to urban planning by exploring in-depth the practicability and worthiness of urban rooftop…
Report // Water – Energy Nexus in Europe
By Marko Adamovic, Bernard Bisselink, Matteo De Felice, Arie De Roo, Chiara Dorati, Daniele Ganora, Hrvoje Medarac, Alberto Pistocchi, Wouter Van De…
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 // Quantifying and analysing water trade-offs in the water-energy-food nexus: The case of Ghana
By Emmanuel K. Opoku and colleagues. Based on the results of this study, the implementation of policies and the application of more technological…
Research Article // Energy-food nexus scarcity risk and the synergic impact of climate policy: A global production network perspective
By Yan Xia and Bingqian Yan. By combining multi-regional input-output analysis and network control analysis, this paper investigated the dependence…
Research Article // A computational modelling approach based on the ‘Energy - Water - Food nexus node’ to support decision-making for sustainable and resilient food security
By Maryam Haji, Rajesh Govindan and Tareq Al-Ansari. The enhanced EWF nexus nodal method was applied to represent various farming industries having…