Tackling complexity: Understanding the food-energy-environment nexus in Ethiopia's lake TANA sub-basin

Water Alternatives

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 710-734

  Karlberg, Louise ^a   Hoff, Holger ^a   Amsalu, Tedasse ^b   Andersson, Kim ^a   Binnington, Taylor ^c   Flores López, Francisco ^a   de Bruin, Annemarieke ^d   Gebrehiwot, Solomon Gebreyohannis ^e   Gedif, Birhanu ^b   zur Heide, Friedrich ^f   Johnson, Oliver ^a   Osbeck, Maria ^a   Young, Chuck ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^f GFA CONSULTING GROUP   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification and transformation; Energy transition; Ethiopia; Participatory scenario development; WEAP LEAP

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NATIONAL PLANNING;

ETHIOPIA; LAKE TANA BASIN;

EID: 84922324377     PISSN: 19650175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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