The Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Optimization Models for Decision Making

Brenda Cansino-Loeza, José Maria Ponce-Ortega

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780443135712
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443135729
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Business Intelligence
• Index: Biological Sciences

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Optimization Models for Decision Making covers the discussion about water, energy, and food as a crucial resource for human well-being and for sustainable development. These resources are inextricable interrelated, therefore, to cover water, energy, and food demands in different sectors and at different scales, it must be considered several sources to produce resources even conventional or unconventional, and there must be considered the interlinkages of resources for a proper integration. This book will emphasize several issues that must be considered in the design of water-energy-food nexus systems such as the selection of technologies to produce water or energy, size of technologies and food required to cover nutritional demands. Therefore, in The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Optimization Models for Decision Making, mathematical models are presented for the design of water-energy-food nexus systems involving several strategies to account for issues like sustainable development, security of resources, interest in conflicts from stakeholders, and efficient allocation of resources. - Includes different optimization models for the integration of water-energy-food nexus - Considers sustainability criteria in the presented models - Helps readers understand different approaches for trade-off solutions - Presents general software that can be used in solving different problems

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Chapter 1. The water–energy–food nexus
• Chapter 2. Water–energy–food nexus security
• Chapter 3. Decision-making and optimization models of the water–energy–food system
• Chapter 4. A systematic approach for assessing the water–energy–food nexus for sustainable development
• Chapter 5. Involving the water–energy–food nexus in integrating low-income communities
• Chapter 6. Stochastic optimization of the water–energy–food nexus in disadvantaged rural communities
• Chapter 7. Sustainable assessment of water–energy–food nexus through a multistakeholder optimization approach
• Chapter 8. A water–energy–food security nexus framework based on optimal resource allocation
• Index