TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting resilience for food, energy, and water interdependencies
AU - Zimmerman, Rae
AU - Zhu, Quanyan
AU - Dimitri, Carolyn
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the following NSF grants: number 1441140 Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems (RIPS) type 1—A meta-network system framework for resilient analysis and design of modern interdependent critical infrastructures; number 1541164 Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) type 1—Reductionist and integrative approaches to improve the resiliency of multi-scale interdependent critical infrastructure; and number 1444755 (Arizona State University lead)—Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather Related Events Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the input from the anonymous reviewers.
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PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - This paper presents relationships among food, energy, and water (FEW) systems, reflecting the interconnections among the energy/water, water/energy, water/food, and energy/food sectors. First, a unique approach uses metrics and quantification to reflect interdependencies among these sectors. Next, changes in food technology and practices are put forth in terms of impacts changes are likely to produce for a set of FEW system relationships. Organic farming or shifts in food consumption patterns, such as reduced meat consumption, are two examples of changes in food technology and practices that could affect water and energy use. From a policy perspective, changes in energy and water policy can potentially facilitate increased water conservation and greater use of renewable energy sources; such policy shifts are addressed in terms of changes to metrics and/or their values. The purpose of this work is to establish a network model that quantifies interdependencies among different sectors in terms of resource usage. The model is flexible and can accommodate other factors such as cyberphysical and logical interdependencies. The established model that these metrics provide inputs for enables analysis and design of the resilience mechanisms for FEW complex systems. Examples are used to illustrate the concepts developed in this work.
AB - This paper presents relationships among food, energy, and water (FEW) systems, reflecting the interconnections among the energy/water, water/energy, water/food, and energy/food sectors. First, a unique approach uses metrics and quantification to reflect interdependencies among these sectors. Next, changes in food technology and practices are put forth in terms of impacts changes are likely to produce for a set of FEW system relationships. Organic farming or shifts in food consumption patterns, such as reduced meat consumption, are two examples of changes in food technology and practices that could affect water and energy use. From a policy perspective, changes in energy and water policy can potentially facilitate increased water conservation and greater use of renewable energy sources; such policy shifts are addressed in terms of changes to metrics and/or their values. The purpose of this work is to establish a network model that quantifies interdependencies among different sectors in terms of resource usage. The model is flexible and can accommodate other factors such as cyberphysical and logical interdependencies. The established model that these metrics provide inputs for enables analysis and design of the resilience mechanisms for FEW complex systems. Examples are used to illustrate the concepts developed in this work.
KW - Food-energy-water production tradeoffs
KW - Infrastructure interdependencies
KW - Network analysis
KW - Organic agriculture
KW - Resilience
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U2 - 10.1007/s13412-016-0362-0
DO - 10.1007/s13412-016-0362-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84977139496
SN - 2190-6483
VL - 6
SP - 50
EP - 61
JO - Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
JF - Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
IS - 1
ER -