A framework for assessing food-energy-water security: A FEW case studies from rural Alaska

Schmidt, Jennifer I.; Johnson, Barbara; Huntington, Henry P.; Whitney, Erin

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153355

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“…Measures of security within a community likely reflect local circumstances and expectations as well as perceptions that can be affected by recent changes as noted earlier, making cross-community comparisons difficult. For example, in rural Alaska, the loss of ferry service to Cordova in 2019 caused an understandable reduction in perceived food security, as supplies had to be flown in at greater cost (Huntington et al, 2021;Schmidt et al, 2022). This does not mean, however, that Cordova's food security was objectively worse than another community that had always had to rely on air cargo and was simply inured to the inherent costs and uncertainties.…”

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“…The four components we used are availability, access, preference, and quality (Schmidt et al, 2022). All can be assessed qualitatively and quantitatively, as data and other resources are available (Huntington et al, 2021).…”

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“…To illustrate these ideas, we present selected real-world examples from household interviews and discussions with community leaders in four communities in rural Alaska (Schmidt et al, 2022) and published sources (Table 2). The examples are intended to illustrate a range of barriers to FEW security and the underlying causes of those barriers.…”

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From Metrics to Action: A Framework for Identifying Limiting Factors, Key Causes, and Possible Solutions in Food-Energy-Water Security

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Huntington²,

Whitney³

et al. 2022

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Food, energy, and water (FEW) security require adequate quantities and forms of each resource, conditions that are threatened by climate change and other factors. Assessing FEW security is important, and needs to be understood in the context of multiple factors. Existing frameworks make it hard to disentangle the contributors to FEW insecurity and to determine where best to expend efforts on short- and long-term solutions. We identified four consistent components of FEW security (availability, access, preference, quality). This framework provides detailed and nuanced insights into factors that limit or bolster security in each of the three sectors. The integrated framework identifies proximate and ultimate underlying causes of deficiencies in each security component providing opportunities to identify short- and long-term solutions.

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From Metrics to Action: A Framework for Identifying Limiting Factors, Key Causes, and Possible Solutions in Food-Energy-Water Security

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Huntington²,

Whitney³

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“…We hypothesize that households prioritize subsistence activities, which are intrinsic both to Indigenous ways of life 28,69,70 and food security. 68 Engaging in subsistence Environmental Science: Advances requires purchasing equipment and fuel 71,72 and costs vary by village. For example, CDQ villages (Model 8) are coastal villages with a tradition of traveling onto the ocean to shing, 73,74 which may entail higher costs compared to inland villages.…”

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The Alaska permanent fund dividend increases residential payments for water services

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Molina,

Herrmann

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Environ. Sci.: Adv.

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“…Researchers use their own methods and frameworks by integrating a new dimension or adding a new influencing factor to the WEF nexus. The nexus are applied in different combinations-for instance as a water-energy-food nexus [86,87], food-energy (FE) nexus [88], land-water-energy-food (LWEF) nexus [89,90], land-water-energy (LWE) nexus [91], and water-energy-land-food-climate (WLEFC) nexus [73,92]. Different geographical areas face different problems related to the three components of the WEF nexus.…”

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Analysis of Pros and Cons in Using the Water–Energy–Food Nexus Approach to Assess Resource Security: A Review

Rezaei Kalvani,

Celico

2024

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The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus is drawing much attention in scholarly literature as a novel alternative to address complex resources and achieve resource security. The aim of this study is to analyze and review existing nexus studies to investigate the current status of nexus research worldwide. This study used a narrative review approach to provide a comprehensive overview on the WEF nexus using a variety of databases. It is indicated that the majority of studies in Asia and Africa focused on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. China and Brazil had the largest nexus research. Based on the existing literature, most of attention has been paid to food production. However, food consumption patterns and dietary change are rarely evaluated, and there is a lack of study on impacts of dietary change on the WEF nexus. Moreover, there is a lack of frameworks for the evaluation of the WEF nexus under dietary change scenarios. The major challenge of the nexus approach is data availability in crop production, which can be solved by using remote sensing data. There is a lack of standard and conceptual frameworks for nexus assessment and, then, an essential need to provide a new holistic and standard approach that be applicable worldwide to increase connections between researchers and decision makers, as well as the applicability of nexus approaches. Future research must couple the development of a holistic standard approach with experimental tests in different areas, involving interdisciplinary research groups able to carry out all the experimental activities, the numerical simulations, and the statistical analyses of climatic time series (in a climate change perspective) indispensable to demonstrate the real benefits of using a WEF-derived nexus approach.

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A framework for assessing food-energy-water security: A FEW case studies from rural Alaska

Cited by 12 publications

References 64 publications

From Metrics to Action: A Framework for Identifying Limiting Factors, Key Causes, and Possible Solutions in Food-Energy-Water Security

From Metrics to Action: A Framework for Identifying Limiting Factors, Key Causes, and Possible Solutions in Food-Energy-Water Security

The Alaska permanent fund dividend increases residential payments for water services

Analysis of Pros and Cons in Using the Water–Energy–Food Nexus Approach to Assess Resource Security: A Review

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