Amid the current environmental crises that exert enormous pressure on the arable lands,
there is a need to adopt environment-friendly effective but highly productive conservation …

Purpose Future scenarios and life cycle assessment (LCA) are powerful tools that can
provide early sustainability assessments of novel products, technologies and systems. The …

Resource-based regions (RBRs) have made significant contributions to the social and
economic development of nations. The long-term and high-intensity development of …

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 …

A city is the place where food, energy, and water consumption happen. This consumption
leads to challenges and has a strong impact on natural sources. Although researchers …

The conventional rice-wheat system in the western Indo-Gangetic plain of India is energy
and water intensive with high carbon footprint. The transition towards resource-efficient eco …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodological tool that estimates the environmental
footprint from a cradle-to-grave perspective. With the increased need for the geographically …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method that focuses on measuring indicators and making
decisions in the environmental dimension. However, its isolation from economic, social, and …

The maintenance of the total natural capital stocks has received increased attention
worldwide for its ability to achieve sustainable development. However, the claim that …

The risks associated with water-energy-food (WEF) nexus can be determined by analyzing
the three resources as a system and subsequently measuring the probability of resource …