Momblanch, Andrea and Papadimitriou, Lamprini and Jain, Sanjay K and Kulkarni, Anil and Ojha, Chandra SP and Adeloye, Adebayo J and Holman, Ian P (2019) Untangling the water-food-energy-environment nexus for global change adaptation in a complex Himalayan water resource system. In: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 655 . pp. 35-47.
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Abstract
Holistic water management approaches are essential under future climate and socio-economic changes, especially while trying to achieve inter-disciplinary societal goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of clean water, hunger eradication, clean energy and life on land. Assessing water resources within a water-food-energy-environment nexus approach enables the relationships between water-related sectors to be untangled while incorporating impacts of societal changes. We use a systems modelling approach to explore global change impacts on the nexus in the mid-21st century in a complexwestern Himalayanwater resource system in India, considering a range of climate change and alternative socio-economic development scenarios. Results show that future socio-economic changes will have a much stronger impact on the nexus compared to climate change. Hydropower generation and environmental protection represent the major opportunities and limitations for adaptation in the studied system and should, thereby, be the focus for actions and systemic transformations in pursue of the SDGs. The emergence of scenario-specific synergies and trade-offs between nexus component indicators demonstrates the benefits that water resource systems models canmake to designing better responses to the complex nexus challenges associated with future global change. (c) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT |
| Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this information belongs to ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV |
| Keywords: | Systems modelling; WEAP; Nexus; Synergies and trade-offs; Climate change; Socio-economic change |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Divecha Centre for Climate Change |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2019 09:46 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 09:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61576 |
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