A review of the current state of research on the water, energy, and food nexus

Endo, Aiko; Tsurita, Izumi; Burnett, Kimberly; Orencio, Pedcris M.

doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.11.010

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“…They may also fail to take some critical natural resources into policy consideration. Water, for example, received attention in the green economy discussion only a few years before the nexus concept was launched at the Bonn Conference (Endo et al, 2017;Hoff, 2011). In fact, water, energy, and food are intricately linked.…”

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“…As significant as it may be, the WEF nexus is still unknown to the public and has no fixed interpretation (Endo et al, 2017). This new scientific concept needs to be promoted to the global public so that key stakeholders can be actively engaged in building a policy framework based on the nexus approach (UN, 2014).…”

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“…By 2030, it is estimated that demands for water, energy, and food will increase by 40%, 50%, and 35%, respectively (Endo et al, 2017;Hoff, 2011;U.S. National Intelligence Council, 2012).…”

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“…The concept of the WEF nexus enables a better understanding and a systematic analysis of the interactions between the natural environment and human activities as well as more coordinated management and use of natural resources (UN, 2014). It is crucial to promote this concept to the public, because public endorsement is key to adopting policy concepts (Endo et al, 2017). The lack of public knowledge regarding the WEF nexus, on the other hand, makes it an ideal topic to test the functions of message inoculation and conclusion explicitness in the effects of strategic promotions, because it rules out the possible moderation of audience predisposition (Armstrong, 2010;O'Keefe, 2016).…”

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“…By 2030, it is estimated that demands for water, energy, and food will increase by 40%, 50%, and 35%, respectively (Endo et al, 2017;Hoff, 2011;U.S. National Intelligence Council, 2012).…”

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“…European studies are relatively few and their focus is more shifted onto agriculture and food production, in the framework of the expanded water-energy-food nexus concept discussed within the Bonn Conference [13]. Some studies concerning Spain and Germany are mentioned in a literature review concerning energy consumption for water use cycles [14], while a consumptive water footprint of electricity and heat was presented at an aggregated European level in [15].…”

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Water-energy and GHG nexus assessment of alternative heat recovery options in industry: A case study on electric steelmaking in Europe

Santin

Saro

2017

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In the last few years, the water-energy nexus concept has emerged as a global issue in the international research community. However, studies on European countries are relatively few, and often focused on the energy sector and agriculture, even though industry dominates water use in many European countries. Cooling purposes represent the main part of industrial water demand, and waste heat recovery is perceived as a main strategy to improve industrial resource efficiency. In this paper, we consider a real case study of low-temperature waste-heat recovery in an electric steelmaking industry and evaluate the impact of feasible interventions on primary energy and water consumption, as well as on CO2 equivalent emissions. Based on a Europe wide review of energy and water prices, of energy sources and corresponding resource efficiency indicators, a Monte Carlo model was developed to undertake a generalization of the case study to the EU-15. It was found that, in spite of common intuition, solutions with the lowest primary energy demand and the lowest CO2 equivalent emissions demonstrate the greatest water footprint. This is especially the case of southern European countries, where heat recovery projects with the highest water intensity are economically feasible due to high electricity and low water prices. As increasing carbon prices may exacerbate this phenomenon, inducing a switch to more water intensive technologies, policy instruments for supporting industrial energy efficiency or carbon emission reduction should be carefully designed.

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Impacts of climate change on water management

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Yang

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Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Climate change and increasing demands are stressing water allocation. In many places, water reallocation and expensive water development actions are being undertaken with more likely to be stimulated by climate change.Here we examine reallocation and development actions between and within municipal, agricultural, and energy industry users in a water-scarce region and examine how climate change stimulates further actions. We built a regional agricultural, water and electricity two-stage stochastic model that simulates optimal strategies in South Central Texas. We find that climate change significantly expands water development, causes agricultural water use reduction and reallocation to municipal interests.

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A review of the current state of research on the water, energy, and food nexus

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