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

FEW：支持粮食-能源-水关系规划的分析工具的开发和应用

• 批准号: 1541642
• 负责人: Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541642&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FEW; Development; Application; Analytical; Tools

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.

1541642（Miralles-Wilhelm）。本次研讨会将侧重于制定原则，算法和模型配方，以了解和评估通过研究开发的实施方法的潜力，以应对粮食-能源-水（FEW）关系的挑战。 研讨会将采取广泛的系统观点，将工具和学科专业知识的应用与工程FEW系统的优化联系起来。 一个目标是解决少数几个利益相关者的共同需求，提供一个互动的环境，以探索权衡，探索潜在的协同作用，并评估广泛的少数几个选项和目标之间的替代方案，包括灵活性，以促进不同地理区域和规模的定制分析。通过提高跨学科建模的认识和能力，促进综合规划，并确定/评估权衡和协同作用，促进能源和水部门的发展。讲习班的重点将是交流关于创新办法和循证业务工具的见解、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。所设计的工具可侧重于上游部门的规划，以查明水、能源和粮食发展的主要机会和制约因素，并评估在不影响服务质量的情况下遏制需求增长的机会，从而表明需要进行更详细分析的优先事项，并说明每个部门投资的备选方案。这也将是一个重要步骤，有助于更好地理解竞争性用途之间的经济和社会权衡（即，能源转换用水与粮食生产、工业和市政用途以及原位水的环境效益）。因此，这一关于研究思想和方法的交流成果旨在支持粮食-能源-水综合规划和研究投资优先次序方面的决策。