The water-energy-food nexus is directly connected with the implementation of the 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that make up the United Nations 2030 Agenda …

Changes in consumption patterns in developing countries emphasize the nutritional content
of food sources such as meat, fruits, and vegetables. Aquaponic and hydroponic cultivation …

Modern cities are commonly seen as places where one can find a better life. At the same
time, they face challenges in achieving sustainability, a goal crucial to the fundamental …

A considerable amount of literature has been published on the sustainable development,
especially since it began to grow in importance in terms of performance benefits [1]. Growing …

Quantifying the interactions among food, energy, and water (FEW) systems is crucial to
support integrated policies for the nexus governance. Metropolitan areas are the main …

Despite the vast research on many-objective optimisation problems, the presence of many
objective functions is still a challenge worthy of further study. A way to treat this kind of …

The global food system is under intense pressure with increasing food demand and
potentially transient disruptions in supply. Cities are particularly vulnerable to the disruptions …

Tonghui Ding a, Liping Fang b,⁎, Junfei Chen a, c, d,⁎, Juan Ji a, Zhou Fang aa Business
School, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China b Department of Mechanical and Industrial …

Access to clean energy and water can make substantial contributions towards promoting
rural development, particularly in poor off-grid communities in developing countries. To gain …

abstract In this paper, we enriched Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) with interval outranking to
develop a novel multiobjective ACO optimizer to approach problems with many objective …