Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens
Lebanon faces a mix of underlying political and economic challenges, shocks, and triggering events that threaten the sustainability and resilience of its interconnected resource systems. The complex nature of these pressures begs for a systems approach to better understand the existing interconnecti...
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| description | Lebanon faces a mix of underlying political and economic challenges, shocks, and triggering events that threaten the sustainability and resilience of its interconnected resource systems. The complex nature of these pressures begs for a systems approach to better understand the existing interconnections and to support the co-creation of cross-sectoral solutions to address them. This article specifically aims to: 1) conduct a scoping review of the existing literature and current events to identify interconnections between water-, energy-, and food-related challenges as they relate to the underlying conditions and triggering events at play in the context of Lebanon; 2) highlight ways in which the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus is a useful lens through which to understand and act upon issues at different scales; and 3) identify emergent themes including decentralization and systems thinking and their roles as catalysts toward more resilient resource systems. The examination concludes with two main recommendations: first, to create platforms and opportunities for interactive resource planning and decision making to facilitate systems-thinking for top-down WEF management; and second, to empower decentralized initiatives at the local level to build resilient, bottom-up solutions to WEF challenges. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f5d0c3324852427b90304c467b9f82452022-12-22T03:25:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2022-05-01610.3389/fsufs.2022.748343748343Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus LensBassel Daher0Bassel Daher1Bassel Daher2Silva Hamie3Konstantinos Pappas4Konstantinos Pappas5Julie Roth6Texas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United StatesDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United StatesBush School of Government and Public Service, Institute of Science Technology and Public Policy, College Station, TX, United StatesBush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United StatesTexas A&M Energy Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United StatesBorders & Migration Program, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United StatesBush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United StatesLebanon faces a mix of underlying political and economic challenges, shocks, and triggering events that threaten the sustainability and resilience of its interconnected resource systems. The complex nature of these pressures begs for a systems approach to better understand the existing interconnections and to support the co-creation of cross-sectoral solutions to address them. This article specifically aims to: 1) conduct a scoping review of the existing literature and current events to identify interconnections between water-, energy-, and food-related challenges as they relate to the underlying conditions and triggering events at play in the context of Lebanon; 2) highlight ways in which the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus is a useful lens through which to understand and act upon issues at different scales; and 3) identify emergent themes including decentralization and systems thinking and their roles as catalysts toward more resilient resource systems. The examination concludes with two main recommendations: first, to create platforms and opportunities for interactive resource planning and decision making to facilitate systems-thinking for top-down WEF management; and second, to empower decentralized initiatives at the local level to build resilient, bottom-up solutions to WEF challenges.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.748343/fullsecurityintegrative planningdecentralized approachescompound shockssystems thinking |
| spellingShingle | Bassel Daher Bassel Daher Bassel Daher Silva Hamie Konstantinos Pappas Konstantinos Pappas Julie Roth Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems security integrative planning decentralized approaches compound shocks systems thinking |
| title | Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens |
| title_full | Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens |
| title_fullStr | Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens |
| title_short | Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens |
| title_sort | examining lebanon s resilience through a water energy food nexus lens |
| topic | security integrative planning decentralized approaches compound shocks systems thinking |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.748343/full |
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