Irrigated agriculture is the main source of water withdrawals, accounting for around 70% of
all the world's freshwater withdrawals. The development of irrigated agriculture has boosted …

The twenty-first century is witnessing an explosion in global population, environmental
changes, agricultural land disintegration, hunger, and geopolitical instabilities. It is difficult to …

The areas of energy, water and food policy have numerous interwoven concerns ranging
from ensuring access to services, to environmental impacts to price volatility. These issues …

Water management faces great challenges over the coming decades. Pressures include
stricter water-quality standards, increasing demand for water and the need to adapt to …

Rapid and important developments in the area of energy-water nexus over the last two to
three years have been significant. This new edition of Water and Energy: Threats and …

Hydropower plays an important role as the global energy system moves towards a less
carbon-intensive and sustainable future as promoted under the Sustainable Development …

Water, energy, and food have complex and dynamic interactions, forming water-energy-food
nexus (WEFN) systems with tradeoffs and synergies. To fill the gap in quantitatively …

As the uncertainty and importance of securing resources increase, the nexus concept is
used for integrated sustainable use management planning. In particular, because protected …

A number of frameworks have been used to study the water-food-energy nexus; but few of
these consider the role of institutions in mediating environmental outcomes. In this paper we …

Pakistan has not fully harnessed the capacity of its vast hydropower potential for electricity
generation. It depends on imported and local fossil fuels to fulfill its energy demands, which …