H11F:
Food–Energy–Water Nexus in a Changing World I


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Session ID#: 62029

Session Description:
Quantifying the interdependence of food, energy, and water is critical considering increasing intensity of droughts and floods globally. Considerable research is being conducted on the food–energy– water (FEW) nexus, with some focusing on new approaches for managing these resources. Hower, many challenges remain in scientific research on the FEW nexus, with implementation as a management tool just beginning. Developing integrated software platforms and tools for systematic analysis of the FEW nexus can be an important initial step. This session calls for contributions that will help with such tool development: FEW interactions and modeling, on local, regional, national, continental, and global spatial scales; comparision among regions/countries; linkages to climate extremes, policy implications and the FEW nexus for sustainable development, among others. The session should advance our current understanding of the FEW nexus in coupled human and natural systems, and provides thoughts for improving efficiency and sustainability in regional FEW use.
Primary Convener:  Junguo Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China
Conveners:  Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University, Department of Civil Engineering, Boise, ID, United States and Ali Mirchi, The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Civil Engineering and Center for Environmental Resource Management, El Paso, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University, Department of Civil Engineering, Boise, ID, United States
Chairs:  Ali Mirchi, The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Civil Engineering and Center for Environmental Resource Management, El Paso, TX, United States and Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University, Department of Civil Engineering, Boise, ID, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Index Terms:

1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems: Problems and Solutions (Invited) (402662)
Jie Zhuang, University of Tennessee, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Knoxville, TN, United States, Frank E. Loeffler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, TN, United States and Gary Sayler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
Making agriculture sustainable using local renewable energy (427886)
Mary C Hill, University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, Robert W Barron, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States, Peter Pfromm, Washington State University, Chemical Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University, Agricultural Economics, Manhattan, KS, United States, Hongyu Wu, Kansas State University, Electrical Engineering, Manhattan, KS, United States, James Bloodgood, Kansas State University, Business Administration, Manhattan, KS, United States and Benjamin J Gray, University of Montana, Sociology, Missoula, MT, United States
Cost mapping and comparison of solar and diesel pumping for small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa (449522)
Hua Xie1, Madeline R Ruid2, Alam Mondal1, Petra Schmitter3, Meredith Giordano4 and Claudia Ringler1, (1)International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (3)International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka, (4)International Water Management Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Food flows between counties in the United States (363551)
Megan Konar1, Xiaowen Lin2, P J Ruess1 and Landon Marston3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, United States
Identifying robust development pathways to manage the groundwater-food-energy trilemma in California through penetration of renewable energy generation (376196)
Xiaogang He1, Kairui Feng2, Jim W Hall3, Yoshihide Wada4, Peter Burek4, Ning Lin2, Eric F Wood1 and Justin Sheffield5, (1)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, (3)University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (5)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
On the Potential Role for Earth Observations and Information Systems in Water-Energy-Food Nexus Planning Frameworks (409999)
Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States

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