Securing Our Future: A Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach to Climate Risks, Resource Scarcity, and Human Mobility in the Middle East
This book addresses these pressing issues, providing a comprehensive overview of the challenges posed by climate change and their impacts on society. It also presents a series of innovative actions aimed at enhancing the resilience of modern society. The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus is a critical area of research aimed at building a more sustainable society. […]
Higher education’s dual role in the AI economy: Balancing foundational learning and micro-credential innovation
The global rise of micro-credentials presents an agile solution for targeted technical upskilling, yet most artificial intelligence (AI)-related micro-credentials are offered by private sector organizations and emphasize technical skills. International bodies like the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the European Commission have created frameworks emphasizing the critical importance of AI literacy for primary […]
Context matters: A framework for assessing the suitability of climate smart agriculture technologies for smallholder farmers
This chapter presents a framework for climate-smart technology adoption that emphasizes the critical role of contextual factors in shaping agricultural resilience. It highlights how socioeconomic conditions, policy environments, and resource availability vary significantly across countries, which ultimately needs to reflect on the choice of technologies to be adopted. The framework synthesizes nine key indicators and […]
Higher Education’s Dual Role in the AI Economy: Balancing Foundational Learning and Micro-Credential Innovation
The global rise of micro-credentials presents an agile solution for targeted technical upskilling, yet most artificial intelligence (AI)-related micro-credentials are offered by private sector organizations and emphasize technical skills. International bodies like the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the European Commission have created frameworks emphasizing the critical importance of AI literacy for primary […]
Securing Our Future: A Water-Energy-Food Nexus Approach to Climate Risks, Resource Scarcity, and Human Mobility in the Middle East
Global challenges, including disasters escalating from extreme weather, population growth, urbanization, and resource scarcity, strain critical systems. Projected supply–demand gaps by 2030, coupled with migratory crises driven by conflict, famine, and resource deprivation, threaten human security and global stability. The Arab region faces acute water, energy, and food system pressures intensified by resource limitations, population […]
Water, energy, and food: The Ultimate Nexus
Our global community is facing unprecedented risks and challenges that are directly linked to the way we currently understand and manage our resources. Providing sustainable solutions to overcome present challenges poses the need to study the existent interlinkages between these resources. This entry presents water, energy, and food as the main systems that form a […]
Current Water for Food Situational Analysis in the Arab Region and Expected Changes Due to Dynamic Externalities
Uneven distribution of water, food, and energy (WEF) resources, together with demographic, geographic, political, and other natural constraints, burden WEF security plans in many regions of the world. Decision makers are under pressure to bridge the WEF supply-demand gap, and often propose reactive, rather than preventive, strategies that are associated with uncertainty, challenges of sustainability, […]
Modeling the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A 7‐Question Guideline
Water, energy, and food resource systems are under increasing stress. As we prepare to move toward more sustainable resource allocation and management strategies, it is critical that we quantify and model the interconnections that exist between these sectors. Such action will help guide decision making and planning for the future of these resources and related […]
Security, climate change, and the resource nexus
This chapter presents major nodes of research and analysis around climate change and security linkages, around more attempts to link security to the resource nexus, and the need to position equity and justice-related concerns at the center of the complex perspectives. It explores a broad view of security at national, regional, and global scales, which […]
Modeling the Sustainable Development Nexus as a Complex-Coupled System: System Dynamics Modeling
This chapter begins with defining complex systems, presents an overview of the applied science of dynamical systems by focusing on the main components of complexity and chaos, and introduces the concept of dimensionality of systems. Systems have structural and temporal (dynamic) components – they exist in space and time. This chapter focuses on the time […]