Untangling the water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource system

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dc.contributor.authorMomblanch, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorPapadimitriou, Lamprini
dc.contributor.authorJain, Sanjay K.
dc.contributor.authorOjha, Chandra S. P.
dc.contributor.authorAdeloye, Adebayo J.
dc.contributor.authorHolman, Ian P.
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-23T15:16:32Z
dc.date.available2018-11-23T15:16:32Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-08
dc.description.abstractHolistic water management approaches are essential under future climate and socio-economic changes, especially while trying to achieve inter-disciplinary societal goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of clean water, hunger eradication, clean energy and life on land. Assessing water resources within a water-food-energy-environment nexus approach enables the relationships between water-related sectors to be untangled while incorporating impacts of societal changes. We use a systems modelling approach to explore global change impacts on the nexus in the mid-21st century in a complex western Himalayan water resource system in India, considering a range of climate change and alternative socio-economic development scenarios. Results show that future socio-economic changes will have a much stronger impact on the nexus compared to climate change. Hydropower generation and environmental protection represent the major opportunities and limitations for adaptation in the studied system and should, thereby, be the focus for actions and systemic transformations in pursue of the SDGs. The emergence of scenario-specific synergies and trade-offs between nexus component indicators demonstrates the benefits that water resource systems models can make to designing better responses to the complex nexus challenges associated with future global change.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationMomblanch A, Papadimitriou L, Jain SK, et al., (2019) The water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource system. Science of the Total Environment, Volume 655, March 2019, pp. 35-47en_UK
dc.identifier.cris22001214
dc.identifier.issn0048-9697
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.045
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13675
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectSystems modellingen_UK
dc.subjectWEAPen_UK
dc.subjectNexusen_UK
dc.subjectSynergies and trade-offsen_UK
dc.subjectClimate changeen_UK
dc.subjectSocio-economic changeen_UK
dc.titleUntangling the water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource systemen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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