FEW: Development and Application of Analytical Tools in Support of Food-Energy-Water Nexus Planning

1541642 (Miralles-Wilhelm)。本次研讨会将侧重于原则、算法和模型公式的发展，以理解和评估通过研究开发的处理食物-能源-水（FEW）关系挑战的实施方法的潜力。研讨会将采取广泛的系统观点，将工具和学科专业领域的应用与工程FEW系统的优化联系起来。目标是解决少数利益相关者的共同需求，提供一个互动环境，以探索权衡，探索潜在的协同作用，并在广泛的少数选择和目标列表中评估备选方案，包括灵活性，以方便在不同地理区域和规模上进行量身定制的分析。讲习班的目标是通过提高跨学科模式的认识和能力，促进粮食、能源和水部门的可持续管理和发展，以实现综合规划和确定/评价权衡和协同作用。讲习班的重点将是就创新方法和基于证据的业务工具交流见解、经验和研究成果，以评估粮食、能源和水安全方面制约因素的经济和社会权衡。设计的工具可能侧重于上游部门规划，以确定水、能源和粮食发展的主要机会和制约因素，以及评估在不影响服务质量的情况下抑制需求增长的机会，从而指出更详细分析的优先事项，并提供每个部门投资替代方案的特征。这也将是朝着更好地了解相互竞争的用途（即能源转换用水与粮食生产用水、工业和市政用水以及就地用水的环境效益）之间的经济和社会权衡迈出的重要一步。因此，这种研究思想和方法交流的结果旨在支持粮食-能源-水综合规划和研究投资优先次序方面的决策。

1541642 (Miralles-Wilhelm). This workshop will focus on development of principles, algorithms and model formulations for understanding and evaluating the potential of implementing approaches, developed through research, to handling food-energy-water (FEW) nexus challenges. The workshop will take a broad systems perspective, linking application of tools and areas of disciplinary expertise to optimization of engineered FEW systems. An objective is to address shared needs of FEW stakeholders, providing an interactive environment to explore trade-offs, explore potential synergies and evaluate alternatives among a broad list of FEW options and objectives including flexibility to facilitate tailored analyses over different geographical regions and scales.The goal of the workshop is to contribute to sustainable management and development of the food, energy and water sectors by increasing awareness and capacity of interdisciplinary modeling towards integrated planning and identifying/evaluating trade-offs and synergies. The focus of the workshop will be on exchanging insights, experiences and research results on innovative approaches and evidence-based operational tools to assess the economic and social tradeoffs of constraints in food, energy and water security. Designed tools may focus on upstream sector planning in order to identify primary opportunities and constraints to water, energy and food development, as well as evaluating opportunities to curb demand growth without compromising quality of service, thus indicating priorities for more detailed analysis as well as providing characterization of alternative scenarios of investment in each sector. This will also be an important step toward improved understanding of economic and social tradeoffs among competing uses (i.e., water for energy conversion versus food production, industrial and municipal uses, and environmental benefits of in situ water). The results of this exchange on research ideas and approaches thus aims at supporting decision-making in integrated food-energy-water planning and prioritization of research investments.