Integrative technology hubs for urban food- energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (I): Global trend and technology metrics

Autor: Bruno Molle, Séverine Tomas, Martin Perrin, Lixing Gu, Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis, Ana Pires, Jia-Wei Lu, Ni-Bin Chang, Edo Abraham, Chelsea Kaandorp, Mengnan Chen, Nick van de Giesen, Rémi Declercq, Andrea Valencia, Jiangxiao Qiu, Léon Conradi, Nassim Ait-Mouheb, Geoffrey Molle, Deborah Dotta, Uzzal Hossain, Qipeng P. Zheng
Přispěvatelé: University of Central Florida [Orlando] (UCF), University of South Florida [Tampa] (USF), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), South China Institute of Environmental Sciences (SCIES), South China Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Guangzhou 510642, Guangdong, Peoples R China, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences [Delft], Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-AgroParisTech-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), ECOFILAE MONTPELLIER FRA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), ECOSEC MONTPELLIER FRA
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Taylor & Francis, 2021, ⟨10.1080/10643389.2020.1759328⟩
ISSN: 1064-3389
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2020.1759328⟩
Popis: International audience; The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via decentralized and/or centralized facilities, there is an acute need to optimize FEW infrastructures by considering cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs with respect to multiple sustainability indicators. This paper identifies, categorizes, and analyzes global trends with respect to contemporary FEW technology metrics that highlights the possible optimal integration of a broad spectrum of technology hubs for possible cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs. The challenges related to multiscale and multiagent modeling processes for the simulation of urban FEW systems were discussed with respect to the aspects of scaling-up, optimization process, and risk assessment. Our review reveals that this field is growing at a rapid pace and the previous selection of analytical methodologies, nexus criteria, and sustainability indicators largely depended on individual FEW nexus conditions disparately, and full-scale cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs were very rare. Therefore, the potential full-scale technology integration in three ongoing cases of urban FEW systems in Miami (the United States), Marseille (France), and Amsterdam (the Netherlands) were demonstrated in due purpose finally.
Databáze: OpenAIRE