Examining Lebanon's Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens
| Autor: | Bassel Daher, Silva Hamie, Konstantinos Pappas, Julie Roth |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 6 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2571-581X 33248524 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fsufs.2022.748343 |
| Popis: | 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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