Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

Water-energy-food nexus: Concepts, questions and methodologies

C Zhang, X Chen, Y Li, W Ding, G Fu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
The water-energy-food nexus has gained increasing attention in the research communities
as the security of water, energy and food becomes a very high concern due to future …

Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review

A Wasti, P Ray, S Wi, C Folch… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind, need to be paired with sources of
reliable baseload. Hydropower is a renewable, low‐emission source of electricity baseload …

Hydropower dams of the Mekong River basin: A review of their hydrological impacts

JS Hecht, G Lacombe, ME Arias, TD Dang, T Piman - Journal of hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydropower production is altering the Mekong River basin's riverine ecosystems, which
contain the world's largest inland fishery and provide food security and livelihoods to …

Sustainable pathways towards universal renewable electricity access in Africa

R Peters, J Berlekamp, C Kabiri, BA Kaplin… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Half of the African population currently lacks the minimum levels of electricity access defined
by the International Energy Agency. However, given the limited fossil fuel dependency and …

Machine learning for hydrologic sciences: An introductory overview

T Xu, F Liang - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrologic community has experienced a surge in interest in machine learning in recent
years. This interest is primarily driven by rapidly growing hydrologic data repositories, as …

Understanding and managing the food-energy-water nexus–opportunities for water resources research

X Cai, K Wallington, M Shafiee-Jood… - Advances in Water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Studies on the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus lay a shared foundation for
researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and stakeholders to understand and manage …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the use of artificial intelligence methods in infrastructure systems

L McMillan, L Varga - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution offers significant opportunities to capitalise on the
growth of digitalisation and has the potential to enable the 'system of systems' approach …

Sustainable irrigation and climate feedbacks

Y Yang, Z Jin, ND Mueller, AW Driscoll, RR Hernandez… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Agricultural irrigation induces greenhouse gas emissions directly from soils or indirectly
through the use of energy or construction of dams and irrigation infrastructure, while climate …

A water-energy-food-carbon nexus optimization model for sustainable agricultural development in the Yellow River Basin under uncertainty

H Ren, B Liu, Z Zhang, F Li, K Pan, Z Zhou, X Xu - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Water scarcity, limited land resources and global warming are the most challenging issues
facing sustainable agricultural development, and modern agriculture requires efficient and …