GC32A:
Achieving Water-Energy-Food Nexus Sustainability: A Science and Data Need or a Need for Integrated Public Policy? I

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Session ID#: 32399

Session Description:
Natural scientists often highlight that without accurate measurements of a phenomenon we cannot manage that phenomenon. However, when optimizing the use of resources in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus to maximize outputs, minimize environmental impacts and ensure future sustainability, data alone may be insufficient. Some decision-makers insist that appropriate policies, cooperation and transparency are the missing ingredients for improved management of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus. This session is intended to bring together scientists and experts who have worked on at least two of the three interfaces in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus to show the relative importance of contributions from scientific understanding, data and analysis tools, and to discuss obstacles that affect the optimal application of these data to produce better decisions. It will also explore the needs for data, analytical tools and models to improve our understanding of the changes and feedbacks occurring on various scales in the interactions between Water, Energy and Food.
Primary Convener:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Elisabeth Bowley, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Lausanne, Switzerland, Rabi Mohtar, Texas A&M University College Station, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States and Brandi Schottel, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Rabi Mohtar, Texas A&M University College Station, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States and Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling Resource Hotspots: Critical Linkages and Processes (281299)
Bassel Daher, Texas A&M University, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States, Rabi Mohtar, Texas A&M University College Station, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Efstratios Pistikopoulos, TEES Distinguished Research Professor, College Station, TX, United States, Bruce A McCarl, Texas AgriLife Senior Fellow, Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor, College Station, United States, Yingqian Yang, PhD Student, Ag ECON, College Station, United States and Water-Energy-Food Initiative at Texas A&M University Research Group
Multi-scale Food Energy and Water Dynamics in the Blue Nile Highlands (Invited) (211637)
Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Belay Simane, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, Jeremy Foltz, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Detlef Mueller-Mahn, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Gianni Gilioli, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy and Andrea Sciarretta, University of Molise, Molise, Italy
Optimal allocation of land and water resources to achieve Water, Energy and Food Security in the upper Blue Nile basin (283461)
Mariam Allam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Elfatih A B Eltahir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Small Scale Irrigation within Water, Energy and Food Nexus Framework in Ethiopia. (255040)
Tom Gerik1, Abeyou Wale Worqlul2, Dile Yihun3, Jean-Claude Bizimana4, Jaehak Jeong5, Petra Schmitter6, Raghavan Srinivasan7, James W. Richardson4 and Neville Clark8, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Blackland Research Center, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Temple, TX, United States, (3)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (5)Texas A&M University AgriLife Research, Temple, United States, (6)International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, (7)Texas A&M University, Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Agrilife Research, College Station, United States, (8)The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, College Station, TX, United States
Highlights from the Future Earth Water-Energy-Food (W-E-F) Nexus Cluster Project Consultations (273208)
Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Designing and visualizing the water-energy-food nexus system (248289)
Aiko Endo1, Terukazu Kumazawa1, Makoto Yamada2 and Takaaki Kato3, (1)RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, (2)Ryukoku University, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto, Japan, (3)The University of Kitakyushu, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Kitakyushu, Japan

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