The Water–energy–food Security Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for Food Security in South Africa
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The interconnectedness of water, energy and food production cycles translates into the interdependence of water and energy pricing in South Africa as mentioned in this paper, and the level of interconnectedness between these systems is examined.About:
This article is published in Aquatic Procedia.The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 106 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food prices & Food security.read more
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Water-energy-food nexus: Concepts, questions and methodologies
TL;DR: A state-of-the-art review on the concepts, research questions and methodologies in the field of water-energy-food, and future research challenges are identified, including system boundary, data uncertainty and modelling, underlying mechanism of nexus issues and system performance evaluation.
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Towards understanding the integrative approach of the water, energy and food nexus
TL;DR: Evaluation of the WEF nexus integrative debate can be carried out using four key criteria, namely ability to change current policy debates, issue and thinking novelty, practicability and measurability, and clearness and implementation roadmap.
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On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling: Implications for Sustainable Growth
TL;DR: The authors explores the existing confusion around the conceptual definitions and interpretations of the term circular bioeconomy and explores two narratives on circular bio economy: (i) the new economic paradigm based on technological progress (the economics of technological promises) that seeks perpetual economic growth; (ii) an entropic (thermodynamic) narrative that reflects on the limits on economic growth imposed by nature.
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Quantifying the energy, water and food nexus: A review of the latest developments based on life-cycle assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the different applications in which the life cycle assessment methodology has been applied to energy-water-food nexus analysis is provided, and the authors conclude that an integrated life-cycle assessment and EWCN methodology is necessary to determine environmental burdens for different scenarios presented within systems operating within an EWC nexus environment.
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Review of GHG emissions in Pakistan compared to SAARC countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the impact of CO2 emissions on society, forests, crops and wildlife in Pakistan recounting adaptation and mitigation strategies in SAARC countries, and present simulation results for a future super smart grid connecting Central Asian States (CAS) to SAARC Countries for bilateral electricity trade, progress in carbon capture and storage technologies in CAAR countries and original research on utilizing CO2 (R744) for water heating in extremely cold regions
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