Assessing circularity of multi-sectoral systems under the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus

Nika, Chrysanthi-Elisabeth; Vasilaki, V.; Renfrew, D.; Danishvar, Morad; Echchelh, Alban; Katsou, Evina

doi:10.1016/j.watres.2022.118842

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“…Específicamente el recurso hídrico, se refiere a la economía circular del agua (Koseoglu-Imer et al, 2023;Meiryani et al, 2022;Brears, 2020). Si a la EC adicionamos un indicador del uso del agua, esto es, un indicador de la eficiencia de uso del recurso, como lo son para el caso del agua la medición de la huella hídrica (HH) derivada de la metodología de la Water Footprint Network (WFN) (Ruiz-Pérez, Alba-Rodríguez, & Marrero, 2022;Deepa, Anandhi, & Alhashim, 2021;Feng et al, 2021), o de la huella de agua (HA) (Pierrat et al, 2023;Nika et al, 2022) basada en la metodología de la norma ISO 14046, entre otros indicadores existentes (Li et al, 2022;Meiryani et al, 2022), se tendrá un manejo de los recursos hídricos que permita un futuro sostenible (Hoekstra, 2016).…”

Section: La Economía Circularunclassified

Economia Circular Del Agua, Relación Con Los Ods, Barreras Y Prácticas Para Su Transición

Dehonor Márquez,

Rodríguez-Maya,

López-Sandoval

et al. 2023

RMAE

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La creciente preocupación por la disponibilidad del agua a nivel local, regional y mundial para satisfacer las diversas necesidades humanas hace necesario el análisis e implementación de estrategias, así como la adopción de prácticas y la superación de barreras que garanticen el derecho a este recurso vital y su sostenibilidad en el tiempo para garantizar la permanencia de futuras generaciones. La economía circular hasta el momento es el único paradigma para la economía actual (extraer, procesar y desechar) tanto en manufactura como en consumo que se sigue actualmente. En muchos países subdesarrollados como lo es el caso de México aún se presentan diversas barreras en la transformación a procesos de economía circular y en el caso del agua que es uno de los principales recursos naturales y eje de las actividades humanas no es la excepción. Este trabajo de investigación, es el resultado de una revisión sistemática de literatura y de una encuesta de estudiantes de nivel superior. Pretende brindar un panorama actual e informativo a esta problemática, su relación con los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, las barreras y perspectivas a considerar desde el punto de vista de los autores para alcanzar un desarrollo sostenible, mediante acciones que permitan una mejor gestión del agua, que en otros países ya se han probado y que pueden ayudar a terminar con costumbres que impactan negativamente al medioambiente mediante la adaptación de prácticas que ayuden a minimizar la contaminación y la degradación del planeta.

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Section: La Economía Circularunclassified

Economia Circular Del Agua, Relación Con Los Ods, Barreras Y Prácticas Para Su Transición

Dehonor Márquez,

Rodríguez-Maya,

López-Sandoval

et al. 2023

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“…In some ways, the CBH nexus can be regarded as a reorientation of current nexus frameworks, where climate action, biodiversity conservation, and community health serve as the base domains instead of food, water, and energy. (2022) recent Living Planet Report features climate change as an issue that is inextricably linked to the global biodiversity crisis, as well as expresses how addressing these interconnected crises is critical for human health and wellbeing. Additionally, a report produced from a joint workshop between IPCC and IPBES that explored relationships among climate change and biodiversity presented a "climate-biodiversity-society" nexus (Pörtner et al, 2021), referring to it as a systems framing for identifying co-benefits and trade-offs of different policies and strategies with respect to these key sustainability domains.…”

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“…The relationships among climate change and biodiversity issues and objectives have been explored by numerous researchers (Raymond et al, 2017;Spencer et al, 2017;Reynolds et al, 2019), and the interconnectedness between these two critical sustainability issues has been articulated in high-profile works, such as those by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (2019), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022), and World Wide Fund for Nature (2022). Newell et al (2022) have already made progress on the development of the CB aspect of the CBH nexus through their development of an analytical framework for identifying co-benefits and trade-offs among climate and biodiversity plans, policies, and strategies.…”

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“…In the current Anthropocene epoch marked by human-induced changes to global environmental systems, climate change and biodiversity loss are identified as among the most significant sustainability issues threatening humanity and the planet (Steffen et al, 2015a;Berkes, 2017). Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022), the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (2019), and World Wide Fund for Nature (2022) have confirmed the severity of these issues and their increasing consequences for human wellbeing. Additionally, Steffen et al (2015b) identify how climate change and biodiversity loss are highly connected to other major sustainability challenges, positioning these issues as useful foci for the systems thinking required in integrated policy, planning, and management.…”

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The climate-biodiversity-health nexus: a framework for integrated community sustainability planning in the Anthropocene

Newell

2023

Front. Clim.

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Integrated approaches to planning and policy are important for making progress toward sustainability. A variety of frameworks have been developed for facilitating such approaches to planning and policy, such as the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus. However, the WEF nexus has been criticized for a lack of clarity in how to apply the framework, whereas a goals-oriented framework potentially could be more easily applied and operationalized. This paper proposes such a framework, referred to here as the climate-biodiversity-health (CBH) nexus. The paper details the features of the CBH nexus framework, the interactions among its domains, and its potential applications. The CBH nexus consists of three domains (i.e., climate action, biodiversity conservation, and community health) and six subdomains (i.e., climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, habitat protection and regeneration, wildlife health and welfare, physical health, and mental health). The framework can be applied in practice to develop checklists/toolkits for guiding new development and as a basis for creating community indicator systems. It can also be applied in research to identify gaps in planning and policy documents and as a lens for participatory modeling exercises. Continued experimentation with, and improvement of, the CBH framework will reveal its most useful applications, thereby opening new opportunities for communities to effectively develop and implement integrated sustainability plans and policies.

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Water storages in Tana-Beles sub-basin of Ethiopia: what do we know, and where should we go?

Assefa,

Taye,

Ebrahim

et al. 2023

SN Appl. Sci.

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The Tana-Beles sub-basin, a strategic economic growth corridor in Ethiopia, relies on water storage to provide a suite of key services to agriculture, drinking water supply, energy, and ecosystems. While there are a range of storage options (e.g., from large dams to subsurface aquifers) that can be utilized to provide these services, a systematic stock-take of literature on water storage in the Tana-Beles has not been undertaken. This knowledge gap constrains the identification of the relative contribution of different storage types in the Tana-Beles. Accordingly, in this study, we conducted a systematic review of literature on the surface and sub-surface storages to examine key issues of the different storage types and their linkages in the Tana-Beles sub-basin. Peer-reviewed and grey publications from various databases were considered for the systematic review. The results indicate that literature in the Tana-Beles sub-basin is more focused on natural storage like wetlands and Lake Tana than built storage types like human-made reservoirs. Overall, the analysis revealed three key points. First, storage volume and water quality in those storages are declining. Second, the causal factors for storage loss and water quality deterioration are agricultural expansion, land degradation, sedimentation, and increasing water withdrawals. Third, the storage gap will increase because of climate change, population, and economic growth while current management options are fragmented. Therefore, the need for more integrated nexus approaches is paramount to optimize storage resources in water, food, energy, and ecosystems in light of population-driven growth in demand and the ongoing global climate crisis.

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Assessing circularity of multi-sectoral systems under the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus

Cited by 18 publications

References 30 publications

Economia Circular Del Agua, Relación Con Los Ods, Barreras Y Prácticas Para Su Transición

Economia Circular Del Agua, Relación Con Los Ods, Barreras Y Prácticas Para Su Transición

The climate-biodiversity-health nexus: a framework for integrated community sustainability planning in the Anthropocene

Water storages in Tana-Beles sub-basin of Ethiopia: what do we know, and where should we go?

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