Water, energy and food security

Coles, Neil; Hall, Philip

doi:10.1109/tsasia.2012.6397986

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“…In terms of the level of integration, however, we find that the highest level (i.e., incorporation) is only adopted by 21% of the publications. Coles and Hall (2012), for example, provide a clear overview of what such incorporation can entail in a WEF security context.…”

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Resilience Meets the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Mapping the Research Landscape

Hogeboom

Borsje

Deribe

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Resilience thinking is increasingly promoted to address some of the grand challenges of the 21st century: providing water, energy, and food to all, while staying within the limits of the Earth system that is undergoing (climate) change. Concurrently, a partially overlapping body of literature on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has emerged through the realization that water, energy, and food systems are intricately linked—and should therefore be understood and managed in conjunction. This paper reviews recent scientific publications at the intersection of both concepts in order to i) examine the status quo on resilience thinking as it is applied in WEF nexus studies; ii) map the research landscape along major research foci and conceptualizations; iii) and propose a research agenda of topics distilled from gaps in the current research landscape. We identify key conceptualizations of both resilience and nexus framings that are used across studies, as we observe pronounced differences regarding the nexus’ nature, scope, emphasis and level of integration, and resilience’s scope, type, methodological and thematic foci. Promising research avenues include i) improving the understanding of resilience in the WEF nexus across scales, sectors, domains, and disciplines; ii) developing tools and indicators to measure and assess resilience of WEF systems; iii) bridging the implementation gap brought about by (governing) complexity; iv) integrating or reconciling resilience and nexus thinking; v) and considering other development principles and frameworks toward solving WEF challenges beside and beyond resilience, including control, efficiency, sustainability, and equity.

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“…Finally, many authors point out that even if tools and indicators are available, challenges remain in data availability and collection options (Coles and Hall, 2012). More efforts are thus needed to collect data across studies and to develop new approaches that facilitate data collation and sharing.…”

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Resilience Meets the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Mapping the Research Landscape

Hogeboom

Borsje

Deribe

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…All the factors mentioned are major issues when it is taken into account that regions like the EU is the largest energy importer in the world [2]. It's mainly because of the on growing scarce nature of this said resources, and the impact of their applications on the environment, that governments worldwide are implementing this kind of measures, and so the need to implement new sources of energy increases [3].…”

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Towards a web-based energy consumption forecasting platform

Taborda

Almeida

Oliveir-Lima

et al. 2015

2015 9th International Conference on Compatibility and Power Electronics (CPE)

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Nowadays, energy efficiency is a major issue in modern day societies, due to increasing worldwide energy demands. Having this in mind several different solutions are emerging with the purpose of helping the control of energy in all possible ways, whether at its starting pipeline, i.e. where the energy is produced, at the middle pipeline, i.e. where and how the energy is transported, or finally, at the end of the pipeline, where the energy is consumed. At the moment, most solutions are addressing the problem at the end of the pipeline, because it is easier to control the consumption, than it is to alter all of the parts that compose an energy system.Thus, the solution proposed in this paper refers to the development of a platform capable of providing energy prediction on buildings, whether the building is commercial, industrial or residential. The platform will be composed of prediction algorithms, supported by the use of computational intelligence methods such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The main objective of this platform is to use datasets previously recorded of the building energy consumption, along with a number of other parameters, to accurately predict the energy consumption of a given day, so that future, and pondered actions can be taken in order to provide a suitable response for that given day. Technically, the platform itself will be based on standard online remote communication protocols, and this platform is to be integrated with, amongst other equipment, energy meters.

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