Supporting collaboration in interdisciplinary research of water–energy–food nexus by means of ontology engineering

Kumazawa, Terukazu; Hara, Keishiro; Endo, Aiko; Taniguchi, Makoto

doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.11.021

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“…The study found that electricity generation using biofuel (e.g., bio-coal) produced from rice straw is environmentally sustainable. In addition, Kumazawa et al (2017) proposed a knowledge sharing and collaboration tool for interdisciplinary research based on an ontology engineering approach, which is a type of semantic web technology that offers common terms, concepts, and semantics. Ahjum et al (2018) conducted a case study of a water-for-energy development nexus based on the South African national energy-economic system model.…”

Section: Tools and Techniquesmentioning

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Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

Chang

Hossain

Valencia

et al. 2020

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

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The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via decentralized and/ or centralized facilities, there is an acute need to optimize FEW infrastructures by considering cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs with respect to multiple sustainability indicators. This paper identifies, categorizes, and analyzes global trends with respect to contemporary FEW technology metrics that highlights the possible optimal integration of a broad spectrum of technology hubs for possible cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs. The challenges related to multiscale and multiagent modeling processes for the simulation of urban FEW systems were discussed with respect to the aspects of scaling-up, optimization process, and risk assessment. Our review reveals that this field is growing at a rapid pace and the previous selection of analytical methodologies, nexus criteria, and sustainability indicators largely depended on individual FEW nexus conditions disparately, and full-scale cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs CONTACT Ni-Bin Chang

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Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

Chang

Hossain

Valencia

et al. 2020

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

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“…Scholars and practitioners are increasingly calling for processes that engage stakeholders in thinking about the assumptions, strengths, and limitations of models and how conceptual and quantitative models fit into nexus governance and policy-making (see for example, Kumazawa et al, 2017;Pahl-Wostl, 2017;Bieber et al, 2018).…”

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How Methods for Navigating Uncertainty Connect Science and Policy at the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

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Gallagher

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Emerging data-collection technologies coupled with widespread application of advanced communication strategies can bridge the data divide between the resource systems and facilitate technology transfer between urban and rural settings. Advances in ontology engineering can help all stakeholders to adapt to a common language and discource to help cross-collaboration and communication (Kumazawa et al, 2017).…”

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Innovating at the food, water, and energy interface

Helmstedt

Stokes-Draut

Larsen

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Food, energy, and water (FEW) systems are inexorably linked. Earth's changing climate and increasing competition for finite land resources are creating and amplifying challenges at the FEW nexus. Managing FEW systems to mitigate these negative impacts and stresses is a pressing policy issue. The FEW interface is often managed as three independent systems, missing disruptive opportunities for streamlined integrated management. We contend that existing technologies can be reframed and emerging technologies can be harnessed for integrated FEW management, changing the way that each resource system operates within the broader system. We discuss solutions to three main challenges to integrating FEW system management: resolving spatiotemporal disconnections over multiple scales; closing resource loops; and creating actionable information. Sustainable resource management is critical for humanity, as well as for functioning trade systems and ecological health. Embracing integrated management in FEW systems would enable policy makers and managers to more efficiently and effectively secure critical resource systems in the face of global change.

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Supporting collaboration in interdisciplinary research of water–energy–food nexus by means of ontology engineering

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (II): Design strategies for urban sustainability

How Methods for Navigating Uncertainty Connect Science and Policy at the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Innovating at the food, water, and energy interface

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