Principles of food-energy-water nexus governance

MH Yuan, SL Lo - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The food-energy-water nexus is a relatively new emerging field that strives to work at the
urban and rural level for integrated governance of resources. The field has received …

Exploring eco-friendly approaches for mitigating pharmaceutical and personal care products in aquatic ecosystems: a sustainability assessment

M Hossein, R Asha, R Bakari, NF Islam, G Jiang… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Global water scarcity is exacerbated by climate change, population growth, and water
pollution. Over half of the world's population will be affected by water shortages for at least a …

Barriers in participative water Governance: A critical analysis of community development approaches

R Shunglu, S Köpke, L Kanoi, TS Nissanka… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Participatory approaches within development programs involving common-pool resources
are intended to revive a community's role in managing these resources. Certainly, to ensure …

[HTML][HTML] Water quality in surface water: a preliminary assessment of heavy metal contamination of the Mashavera River, Georgia

SS Withanachchi, G Ghambashidze… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Water quality contamination by heavy metal pollution has severe effects on public health. In
the Mashavera River Basin, an important agricultural area for the national food system in …

Heavy metal levels in milk and cheese produced in the Kvemo Kartli region, Georgia

R Al Sidawi, G Ghambashidze, T Urushadze, A Ploeger - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Milk and dairy products are among the most important food sectors in Georgia, and milk is
considered one of the most essential foods in the human diet according to Georgian food …

Artificial intelligence generated synthetic datasets as the remedy for data scarcity in water quality index estimation

MY Chia, CH Koo, YF Huang, W Di Chan… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Springer
Water quality index (WQI) has been utilised in many countries and regions as a numeric
representation of the condition of water resources. However, the computation of the WQI …

Farmers' perception of water quality and risks in the Mashavera River Basin, Georgia: Analyzing the vulnerability of the social-ecological system through community …

SS Withanachchi, I Kunchulia, G Ghambashidze… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Competing natural resources usage that leads to dramatic land use changes can threaten
the balance of a social-ecological system. When this is the case, communities are directly …

Rethinking environmental bureaucracies in River Chiefs System (RCS) in China: A critical literature study

Q Huang, J Xu - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Efforts to understand the political complexities of water governance must include critical
hierarchical or bureaucratical perspectives. The River Chiefs System, China's national …

What matters most? Stakeholders' perceptions of river water quality

M Okumah, AS Yeboah, SK Bonyah - Land use policy, 2020 - Elsevier
The need to integrate stakeholders' views into environmental policy is increasingly gaining
attention because this offers the opportunity to design sustainable and synergistic …

A comparative study for provision of environmental flows in the Tapi River

J Umrigar, DJ Mehta, T Caloiero, HM Azamathulla… - Earth, 2023 - mdpi.com
Environmental flows are defined as the flow required into a stream to maintain the river's
ecosystem. The notion of Environmental Flow Allocation (EFA) ensures that a sufficient …