Trade-offs between water needs for food, utilities, and the environment—a nexus quantification at different scales

Trade-offs between water needs for food, utilities, and the environment—a nexus quantification at different scales

With a growing population and a changing climate, competition for water resources in the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus is expected to increase. In this study, competing water demands between food production, freshwater ecosystems and utilities (energy, industries and households) are quantified. The...

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Main Authors: Lotte de Vos, Hester Biemans, Jonathan C Doelman, Elke Stehfest, Detlef P van Vuuren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
integrated assessments
water-energy-food nexus
environmental flow requirements
water withdrawals
shared socio-economic pathways (SSPS)
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2b5e

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