The application of water–energy nexus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: a structured review

A Maftouh, O El Fatni, M Fayiah, RK Liew, SS Lam… - Applied Water …, 2022 - Springer
Water plays an important role in power generation, fuel manufacturing, and processing. This
has been valid for several decades, but lately, primarily due to climate change, the …

A review of the 21st century challenges in the food-energy-water security in the Middle East

M Hameed, H Moradkhani, A Ahmadalipour… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Developing countries have experienced significant challenges in meeting their needs for
food, energy, and water security. This paper presents a country-level review of the current …

Analysis of climate change impact on resource intensity and carbon emissions in protected farming systems using Water-Energy-Food-Carbon Nexus

PR Yoon, SH Lee, JY Choi, SH Yoo, SO Hur - … , Conservation and Recycling, 2022 - Elsevier
As the uncertainty and importance of securing resources increase, the nexus concept is
used for integrated sustainable use management planning. In particular, because protected …

Food as a weapon? The geopolitics of food and the Qatar–Gulf rift

N Koch - Security Dialogue, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
On 4 June 2017, Qatar was suddenly put under an embargo by its regional neighbors–an
effort spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who cut off most of its existing land, sea …

A Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach for conducting trade-off analysis: Morocco's phosphate industry in the Khouribga region

SH Lee, AT Assi, B Daher, FE Mengoub… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
The study objective was to develop and use the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Phosphate (WEF-
P) Tool to evaluate the impact of Morocco's phosphate industry on water, energy, and food …

Water–energy nexus: Addressing stakeholder preferences in Jordan

N Komendantova, L Marashdeh, L Ekenberg… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The water and energy sectors are fundamentally linked. In Jordan, especially in the face of a
changing climate, the water–energy nexus holds a number of challenges but also …

Monitoring water storage decline over the Middle East

M Khaki, I Hoteit - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity and environmental challenges are affecting many parts of the world,
particularly the arid Middle East region. Limited water resources, urbanization, groundwater …

Against settler sustainability: California's groundwater as a vertical frontier

V Underhill, S Sabati, L Beckett - Environment and Planning …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
California has been heralded as a beacon of agricultural production and productivity, yet its
groundwater crisis is a warning of its impending collapse. In this paper, we argue that …

Decision‐making for systemic water risks: Insights from a participatory risk assessment process in Vietnam

PR Wyrwoll, RQ Grafton, KA Daniell, HL Chu… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Systemic threats to food‐energy‐environment‐water systems require national policy
responses. Yet complete control of these complex systems is impossible and attempts to …

The nexus across water, energy and food (WEF): Learning from research, building on evidence, strengthening practice

B Holmatov, J Lautze… - Natural Resources Forum, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While water‐energy‐food (WEF) Nexus is one of the most important, and widely
investigated, environmental topics of our time, previous stock taking efforts possess notable …