Maximizing Water--Food--Energy Nexus Synergies at Basin Scale

Rogier Burger; Edo Abraham

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-13068-8_16

Maximizing Water--Food--Energy Nexus Synergies at Basin Scale

Rogier Burger, Edo Abraham

Water Resources

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Abstract

In this short paper, we show how solutions for mitigating resource security in one sector can be found in another. We demonstrate—by means of a case study in Burkina Faso and Ghana—how investing in the electricity grid in the south leads to increased food security in the north. A new nexus framework was developed, which was built to understand, simulate and optimize intersectoral (and international) development strategies in the water, food and energy sectors. We believe this new type of geospatial integral resource management, supported by the exponential increase of data availability of the twenty-first century, could finally turn nexus models into decision support tools.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Frontiers in Water-Energy-Nexus—Nature-Based Solutions, Advanced Technologies and Best Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Editors	V. Naddeo , M. Balakrishnan , K.H. Choo
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	67-70
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-13068-8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-13067-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13068-8_16
Publication status	Published - 2019

Publication series

Name	Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI)
Publisher	Springer

Keywords

Nexus optimization framework
Bottom-up approach
Integrated resource management
Remote sensing

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Burger, R., & Abraham, E. (2019). Maximizing Water--Food--Energy Nexus Synergies at Basin Scale. In V. Naddeo , M. Balakrishnan , & K. H. Choo (Eds.), Frontiers in Water-Energy-Nexus—Nature-Based Solutions, Advanced Technologies and Best Practices for Environmental Sustainability (pp. 67-70). (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI)). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13068-8_16

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Burger R, Abraham E. Maximizing Water--Food--Energy Nexus Synergies at Basin Scale. In Naddeo V, Balakrishnan M, Choo KH, editors, Frontiers in Water-Energy-Nexus—Nature-Based Solutions, Advanced Technologies and Best Practices for Environmental Sustainability. Cham: Springer. 2019. p. 67-70. (Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13068-8_16