Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

DL McCollum, LG Echeverri, S Busch… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guide-posts to
society as it attempts to respond to an array of pressing challenges. One of these challenges …

Water-energy-food nexus: Critical review, practical applications, and prospects for future research

A Purwanto, J Sušnik, FX Suryadi, C de Fraiture - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents knowledge gaps and critiques on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus
that have emerged since the concept of the WEF nexus was proposed by the World …

Environmental co-benefits and adverse side-effects of alternative power sector decarbonization strategies

G Luderer, M Pehl, A Arvesen, T Gibon… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
A rapid and deep decarbonization of power supply worldwide is required to limit global
warming to well below 2° C. Beyond greenhouse gas emissions, the power sector is also …

[HTML][HTML] GCAM v5. 1: representing the linkages between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems

K Calvin, P Patel, L Clarke, G Asrar… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper describes GCAM v5. 1, an open source model that represents the linkages
between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems. GCAM is a market equilibrium …

Power-generation system vulnerability and adaptation to changes in climate and water resources

MTH Van Vliet, D Wiberg, S Leduc, K Riahi - Nature Climate Change, 2016 - nature.com
Hydropower and thermoelectric power together contribute 98% of the world's electricity
generation at present. These power-generating technologies both strongly depend on water …

Modeling global water use for the 21st century: The Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative and its approaches

Y Wada, M Flörke, N Hanasaki, S Eisner… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
To sustain growing food demand and increasing standard of living, global water use
increased by nearly 6 times during the last 100 years, and continues to grow. As water …

[HTML][HTML] Water use in electricity generation for water-energy nexus analyses: The European case

MAD Larsen, M Drews - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
With almost 40% of the global population suffering from water scarcity, the need to manage
water resources is evidently urgent. While water and energy systems are intrinsically linked …

Decoupling between water use and thermoelectric power generation growth in China

C Zhang, L Zhong, J Wang - Nature Energy, 2018 - nature.com
As energy and water are fundamentally intertwined, understanding the spatial and temporal
evolution of thermoelectric water use and water stress is important for both sustainable …

Development of a life cycle assessment tool for the assessment of food production systems within the energy, water and food nexus

T Al-Ansari, A Korre, Z Nie, N Shah - Sustainable production and …, 2015 - Elsevier
As the demand for services and products continues to increase in light of rapid population
growth, the question of energy, water and food (EWF) security is of increasing importance …

Long-term global water projections using six socioeconomic scenarios in an integrated assessment modeling framework

M Hejazi, J Edmonds, L Clarke, P Kyle, E Davies… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we assess future water demands for the agricultural (irrigation and livestock),
energy (electricity generation, primary energy production and processing), industrial …