Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction
This special report examines the past, present and future applications of technology in advancing disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts. By providing detailed explanations, definitions and regional case studies, this report showcases how various technologies have helped bridge critical gaps in data gathering, data processing and disaster risk modelling related to multiple hazards and at different […]
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. […]
A Systems Approach for Disaster Risk Reduction: Exploring the Nexus of Energy, Food, and Human Mobility in the Northern Countries of Central America
Globally, disasters and their impacts have been characterized by increasing frequency and changing patterns. Global warming effects, including climate change, have exacerbated the severity and frequency of hydrometeorological and oceanographic, and other risk factors or drivers, such as population growth, urbanization, limited access to resources, inadequate infrastructure, and prevailing structural development conditions, putting additional lives […]
Building resilience in fragile and conflict-affected agrifood systems through a water-energy-food nexus approach
Fragility has become a prevailing reality in an increasing number of countries in various areas, including Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) [1]. The concept of fragility encompasses a range of dimensions, including armed conflict, migration, economic and political instability, erosion of the social fabric, and scarcity, depletion, and contamination of natural resources […]
Examining Lebanon’s Resilience Through a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Lens
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 […]
Food security under compound shocks: Can Lebanon produce its own Mediterranean food basket?
As Lebanon faces compound challenges, a looming food security crisis is rapidly approaching, much of which could be attributed to the lack of long-term planning for sustainability in its agricultural sector. The disconnect between decision-makers within the agricultural sector, and other interconnected sectors is exacerbated by the lack of integrative national platforms and methodologies for […]
Water-Energy-Food-Health Solutions and innovations for low-carbon, climate-resilient drylands
We live in a world of complex and tightly interconnected grand challenges that threaten the sustainability of our societies. Examples of such challenges are summed up in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs), which include specific goals to address water, energy, and food insecurities. Our ability to address these challenges depends on our readiness […]
Editorial: Sustainable and resilient food systems in times of crises
Sustainable and resilient food systems in times of crises The global food system is facing multiple and multifaceted challenges and crises: increasing population, climate change, pandemics, conflicts, economic shocks, and natural disasters. These challenges have exposed its fragility and underscored the urgency of transitioning to sustainable and resilient food systems. Such systems ensure equitable access […]
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 […]
Water-Energy-Food-Health Solutions & Innovations for Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Drylands
Primary resources gaps facing dryland, including access to water, food, energy, nutrition, and health care, are expected to increase with demographic, political, and climatic changes. These highly interlinked primary resources carry high risk and vulnerability. Disentangling these to better understand the complex system of systems they represent is crucial and requires multi-disciplinary work that includes […]