Food-Energy-Water Systems: Achieving Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

Food-Energy-Water Systems: Achieving Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

Author: Charles Vörösmarty

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 2832543189

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extreme weather will mean ongoing challenges to the capacity of these sectors to support human well-being, grow the economy, and provide critical environmental services. Society has yet to evaluate the resilience of FEWS to climate, environmental, and management stresses as it shapes strategies to support sustainable development over the next decades. These issues constitute a quintessential interdisciplinary research challenge and require a well-structured science agenda and supportive information services for implementing key findings that governments and stakeholders can adopt. Integrated policy pathways require usable research findings, applications, models, real-time information systems, and decision support systems. In addition, stakeholder engagement is essential to communicate the benefits and results of these approaches and to engage appropriate groups in their implementation.


Valuing nutrients in soil and water: Concepts and techniques with examples from IWMI studies in the developing world

Valuing nutrients in soil and water: Concepts and techniques with examples from IWMI studies in the developing world

Author: Drechsel, Pay, Giordano, Mark, Gyiele, Lucy

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 9789290905707

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Despite the importance of nutrient-water interactions, they are often ignored in analysis. After discussing the interrelationships between soil nutrients and water and reviewing methods for determining nutrient balances, this report describes an array of available methods for soil nutrient valuation and provides a discussion of four nutrient valuation studies, which together cover a range of scales, perspectives, and geographic contexts. It also includes case studies from Ghana, Mexico, sub-Saharan Africa, and an examination of possible approaches to valuing soil organic matter and its various functions--an often ignored area in literature.