Land, Water, Food, Energy (LWFE) Security NEXUS for Sustainable Ecosystems and Natural Resource Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2024 | Viewed by 445
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interaction of human resources with agro-ecological changes; demographic dynamics and consumption; multidisciplinary economic and environmental policy analysis
Interests: multi-scales interactions of microbes with environments; soil and water source quality controls; mass flow dynamics and transport; Land-Water-Food-Energy nexus
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Interests: spatio-temporal optimization of heterogeneous values and flows in complex dynamic and stochastic systems; analysis and modeling of complex socioeconomic, resources, financial systems with explicit treatment of uncertainties and risks of environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issues is to highlight the interdependencies between the land, water, food, energy (LWFE) security NEXUS and the sustainable use of natural resources. Within the limits of the biosphere and natural resources, and to rethink economic analysis and policy in the light of sustainability, the interactions between land, water, energy, and food are immense. The LWFE security NEXUS concept provides an interdisciplinary methodology for truly integrative analysis of the interdependencies, trade-offs and synergies between LWFE sectors to develop consolidated and consistent cross-sectoral solutions for maintaining sustainable ecosystems and methods for natural resource management with cost-effective allocation, preservation, and protection of the environment.
This Special Issue takes the Nexus approach to social/economic and environmental issues, with particular emphasis on cross-disciplinary models and analysis that use the interacting laws of physics and the economic–ecological principles linking LWFE sectors (land, water, soil, air) under constrains of climate changes, inherent uncertainties, and risks of various kinds at global, national, and regional scales. This nexus approach enables cross-sectoral negotiation and collaboration among stakeholders to help policy makers in achieving long-term joint economic, environmental, and social goals through evidence-based research.
The topics of the SI will cover, but will not be limitedto, the following broad topics:
- Methodology for the LWFE security NEXUS approach to the sustainable use and production of resources;
- Disciplinary and cross-disciplinary biophysical, socioeconomic, land use, and ecosystem models in the context of the LWFE NEXUS and the sustainable use of natural resources;
- Assessment and management of systemic risks for the sustainable use and production of resources;
- Land and water preservation, linkages with LWFE security and biodiversity;
- Efficient resource use and the circular economy;
- Cross-sectoral interdependencies, input–output, and material flow estimations.
Dr. Guiying Cao
Prof. Dr. Gang Wang
Dr. Tatiana Ermolieva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land, water, food, energy (LWFE) nexus
- land and water preservation
- low-carbon economy
- lowpcarbon energy
- human–natura lsystems
- integrated assesment and models
- risk and uncertainty
