Toward Community-Engaged Sustainable Development Goals Localization: San Antonio, TX
Sustainable urban development requires locally relevant strategies that respond to complex challenges of climate change, inequality, and rapid population growth. This paper demonstrates how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can serve as a guiding framework for city-level planning, applied through participatory approaches. We leveraged expert stakeholder engagement and broad public participation in San Antonio, TX, […]
From Data to Decisions: Water-Energy-Food-Environment (WEFE) Nexus Modeling Under Changing Climate
Transforming data into actionable insights is crucial for building resilient and sustainable water, energy, food, and environmental systems. However, the accelerating impacts of climate change are reshaping the dynamics of WEFE systems, intensifying resource interdependencies, and challenging conventional resource planning approaches. To navigate this complexity, decision-makers increasingly need integrated modeling frameworks that reflect cross-sectoral linkages […]
Developing a strategic network to address the global challenges of agricultural land and soil management to adapt to climate change.
Agricultural land and soil (ALS) systems face complex and interacting socio-ecological challenges and tradeoffs. These systems play a critical role in food and water security and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Improving the resilience of complex ALS systems is a societal grand challenge that requires cross-disciplinary research collaboration and cross-sectoral stakeholder engagement. We have established […]
Understanding the Science-Policy Gap: A Formal Principal-Agent Delegation Model
In response to the COP 21 Paris Agreement, policy shifts and interventions are going to take different shapes in different countries. It will vary depending on the types of regimes, level of development, availability of resources, and the nature of the involved stakeholders, among other things. This study introduces a Principal-Agent spatial model of delegation […]
Bridging the Water and Food Gap: The Role of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
The paper introduces global resources challenges and their risks and shifts in what society defines as global securities. The paper will then introduce the water-energy-food nexus as a resource integration platform and will highlight green water as a hotspot in this nexus. Analysis will focus on the manner in which green water should be viewed […]
The water, energy and food (WEF) nexus project: A basis for strategic planning for natural resources sustainability-Challenges for application in the MENA region. Geophysical Research Abstracts.
Water, energy, and food (WEF) are viewed as main systems forming a nexus, which itself is threatened by defined external factors mainly characterized by growing population, changing economies, governance, climate change, and international trade. Integrative thinking in strategic planning for natural resources comes through recognizing the intimate level of interconnectedness between these systems and the […]