A methodology to assess thewater energy food ecosystems nexus in transboundary river basins

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  De Strasser, Lucia ^a   Lipponen, Annukka ^b   Howells, Mark ^a   Stec, Stephen ^c   Bréthaut, Christian ^d  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b United Nations Economic Commission for Europe   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ecosystems; Energy; Food; Land; Methodology; Nexus; Participatory; Transboundary; Water

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FOOD PRODUCTS; LANDING; WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

ENERGY; METHODOLOGY; NEXUS; PARTICIPATORY; TRANS-BOUNDARY;

WATER RESOURCES;

FOOD PRODUCTION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; METHODOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY MAKING; RIVER BASIN; TRADE-OFF; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84960101066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8020059     Document Type: Article

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