Frontiers in Environmental Science (Aug 2022)
Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation
- Zarrar Khan,
- Edo Abraham,
- Srijan Aggarwal,
- Manal Ahmad Khan,
- Ricardo Arguello,
- Meghna Babbar-Sebens,
- Julia Lacal Bereslawski,
- Jeffrey M. Bielicki,
- Jeffrey M. Bielicki,
- Pietro Elia Campana,
- Maria Eugenia Silva Carrazzone,
- Homero Castanier,
- Fi-John Chang,
- Pamela Collins,
- Adela Conchado,
- Adela Conchado,
- Koteswara Rao Dagani,
- Bassel Daher,
- Stefan C. Dekker,
- Ricardo Delgado,
- Fabio A. Diuana,
- Jonathan Doelman,
- Jonathan Doelman,
- Amin A. Elshorbagy,
- Chihhao Fan,
- Rossana Gaudioso,
- Solomon H. Gebrechorkos,
- Hatim M. E. Geli,
- Emily Grubert,
- Daisy Huang,
- Tailin Huang,
- Ansir Ilyas,
- Aleksandr Ivakhnenko,
- Graham P. W. Jewitt,
- Graham P. W. Jewitt,
- Graham P. W. Jewitt,
- Maria João Ferreira dos Santos,
- J. Leah Jones,
- Elke Kellner,
- Elke Kellner,
- Elisabeth H. Krueger,
- Ipsita Kumar,
- Jonathan Lamontagne,
- Angelique Lansu,
- Sanghyun Lee,
- Ruopu Li,
- Pedro Linares,
- Diego Marazza,
- María Pía Mascari,
- Ryan A. McManamay,
- Measrainsey Meng,
- Simone Mereu,
- Simone Mereu,
- Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm,
- Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm,
- Rabi Mohtar,
- Rabi Mohtar,
- Abubakr Muhammad,
- Adenike Kafayat Opejin,
- Saket Pande,
- Simon Parkinson,
- Raphaël Payet-Burin,
- Meenu Ramdas,
- Eunice Pereira Ramos,
- Sudatta Ray,
- Paula Roberts,
- Jon Sampedro,
- Kelly T. Sanders,
- Marzieh Hassanzadeh Saray,
- Jennifer Schmidt,
- Margaret Shanafield,
- Sauleh Siddiqui,
- Micaela Suriano,
- Makoto Taniguchi,
- Antonio Trabucco,
- Marta Tuninetti,
- Adriano Vinca,
- Björn Weeser,
- Dave D. White,
- Thomas B. Wild,
- Kamini Yadav,
- Nithiyanandam Yogeswaran,
- Tokuta Yokohata,
- Qin Yue
Affiliations
- Zarrar Khan
- Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), College Park, MD, United States
- Edo Abraham
- Department of Water Resources Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- Srijan Aggarwal
- College of Engineering and Mines, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
- Manal Ahmad Khan
- National Geographic Partners, Washington, DC, United States
- Ricardo Arguello
- Unidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria (UPRA), Bogotá, Colombia
- Meghna Babbar-Sebens
- School of Civil and Construction Engineering, College of Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
- Julia Lacal Bereslawski
- Consultant, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Jeffrey M. Bielicki
- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
- Jeffrey M. Bielicki
- John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
- Pietro Elia Campana
- 0Department of Sustainable Energy Systems, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden
- Maria Eugenia Silva Carrazzone
- 1Consultora Bioeconomía Sostenible en FAO, Roma, Italy
- Homero Castanier
- 2Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
- Fi-John Chang
- 3Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering and Hydrotech Research Institute, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Pamela Collins
- 4Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States
- Adela Conchado
- 5Environmental Missions, The Overview Effect, Madrid, Spain
- Adela Conchado
- 6Sustainability and Circular Economy, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain
- Koteswara Rao Dagani
- 7Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, India
- Bassel Daher
- 8Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
- Stefan C. Dekker
- 9Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Ricardo Delgado
- 0Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- Fabio A. Diuana
- 1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Janeiro, Brazil
- Jonathan Doelman
- 2Department of Climate, Air and Energy, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, Netherlands, Canada
- Jonathan Doelman
- 3Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Amin A. Elshorbagy
- 4Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
- Chihhao Fan
- 3Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering and Hydrotech Research Institute, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Rossana Gaudioso
- 5Secretaría Nacional de Ambiente, Agua y Cambio Climático, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Solomon H. Gebrechorkos
- 6University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Hatim M. E. Geli
- 7Department of Animal and Range Sciences and New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States
- Emily Grubert
- 8Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
- Daisy Huang
- National Geographic Partners, Washington, DC, United States
- Tailin Huang
- 9NCKU School for Sustainability, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan
- Ansir Ilyas
- 0Centre for Water Informatics and Technology, Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan
- Aleksandr Ivakhnenko
- 1Department of Petroleum Engineering, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Graham P. W. Jewitt
- 2Centre for Water Resources Research, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Graham P. W. Jewitt
- 3IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands
- Graham P. W. Jewitt
- 4Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Technical University Delft, Delft, Netherlands
- Maria João Ferreira dos Santos
- 5Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- J. Leah Jones
- 6Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, Switzerland
- Elke Kellner
- 7Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Elke Kellner
- 8School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
- Elisabeth H. Krueger
- 9Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics (IBED-ELD), University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Ipsita Kumar
- 0Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
- Jonathan Lamontagne
- 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States
- Angelique Lansu
- 2Open University of Netherlands, Open University, Heerlen, Netherlands
- Sanghyun Lee
- 3Department of Agricultural and Rural Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
- Ruopu Li
- 4School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, United States
- Pedro Linares
- 5Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT), Madrid, Spain
- Diego Marazza
- 6Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- María Pía Mascari
- 7Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto (OPP) - Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Ryan A. McManamay
- 8Department of Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
- Measrainsey Meng
- 9Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Simone Mereu
- 0Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Bioeconomia, CNR-IBE, Sassari, Italy
- Simone Mereu
- 1CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, IAFES Division, Sassari, Italy
- Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
- 2College of Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States
- Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
- 3The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, United States
- Rabi Mohtar
- 4Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Water Energy Food Research Group, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
- Rabi Mohtar
- 5Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Abubakr Muhammad
- 0Centre for Water Informatics and Technology, Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan
- Adenike Kafayat Opejin
- 6Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, Switzerland
- Saket Pande
- 6Department of Hydrology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
- Simon Parkinson
- 7International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
- Raphaël Payet-Burin
- 8Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
- Meenu Ramdas
- 9Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Khordha, India
- Eunice Pereira Ramos
- 0Division of Energy Systems, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sudatta Ray
- 1Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources (EIPER), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Paula Roberts
- 2Organismo Regulador de la Seguridad de Presas (ORSEP), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Jon Sampedro
- Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), College Park, MD, United States
- Kelly T. Sanders
- 9Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Marzieh Hassanzadeh Saray
- 3Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Jennifer Schmidt
- 4University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States
- Margaret Shanafield
- 5College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
- Sauleh Siddiqui
- 6Department of Environmental Science, American University, Washington, DC, United States
- Micaela Suriano
- 7Instituto Nacional del Agua (INA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Makoto Taniguchi
- 8Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan
- Antonio Trabucco
- 9Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Lecce, Italy
- Marta Tuninetti
- 0Department of Environment, Land, and Infrastructure Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
- Adriano Vinca
- 2Organismo Regulador de la Seguridad de Presas (ORSEP), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Björn Weeser
- 1Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
- Dave D. White
- 2Centre for Water Resources Research, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
- Thomas B. Wild
- Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), College Park, MD, United States
- Kamini Yadav
- 2ORISE Fellow, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA, United States
- Nithiyanandam Yogeswaran
- 3National Forensic Sciences University, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, Delhi, India
- Tokuta Yokohata
- 4National Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan
- Qin Yue
- 5College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.918085
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10
Abstract
Water, energy, and food are all essential components of human societies. Collectively, their respective resource systems are interconnected in what is called the “nexus”. There is growing consensus that a holistic understanding of the interdependencies and trade-offs between these sectors and other related systems is critical to solving many of the global challenges they present. While nexus research has grown exponentially since 2011, there is no unified, overarching approach, and the implementation of concepts remains hampered by the lack of clear case studies. Here, we present the results of a collaborative thought exercise involving 75 scientists and summarize them into 10 key recommendations covering: the most critical nexus issues of today, emerging themes, and where future efforts should be directed. We conclude that a nexus community of practice to promote open communication among researchers, to maintain and share standardized datasets, and to develop applied case studies will facilitate transparent comparisons of models and encourage the adoption of nexus approaches in practice.
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