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Untangling the water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource system

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dc.creator Momblanch, Andrea
dc.creator Papadimitriou, Lamprini
dc.creator Jain, Sanjay K.
dc.creator Ojha, Chandra S. P.
dc.creator Adeloye, Adebayo J.
dc.creator Holman, Ian P.
dc.date 2018-11-23T15:16:32Z
dc.date 2018-11-23T15:16:32Z
dc.date 2018-11-08
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:40:10Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:40:10Z
dc.identifier Momblanch A, Papadimitriou L, Jain SK, et al., (2019) The water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource system. Science of the Total Environment, Volume 655, March 2019, pp. 35-47
dc.identifier 0048-9697
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.045
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13675
dc.identifier 22001214
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182529
dc.description Holistic water management approaches are essential under future climate and socio-economic changes, especially while trying to achieve inter-disciplinary societal goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of clean water, hunger eradication, clean energy and life on land. Assessing water resources within a water-food-energy-environment nexus approach enables the relationships between water-related sectors to be untangled while incorporating impacts of societal changes. We use a systems modelling approach to explore global change impacts on the nexus in the mid-21st century in a complex western Himalayan water resource system in India, considering a range of climate change and alternative socio-economic development scenarios. Results show that future socio-economic changes will have a much stronger impact on the nexus compared to climate change. Hydropower generation and environmental protection represent the major opportunities and limitations for adaptation in the studied system and should, thereby, be the focus for actions and systemic transformations in pursue of the SDGs. The emergence of scenario-specific synergies and trade-offs between nexus component indicators demonstrates the benefits that water resource systems models can make to designing better responses to the complex nexus challenges associated with future global change.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Systems modelling
dc.subject WEAP
dc.subject Nexus
dc.subject Synergies and trade-offs
dc.subject Climate change
dc.subject Socio-economic change
dc.title Untangling the water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource system
dc.type Article


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