FEW: Food-Energy-Water Nexus Workshop to Develop System Approaches and Sustainability Metrics for Evaluation

1541883(舒斯特尔)。本次研讨会将制定系统框架和相关指标，以评估食品供应链关键加工领域的食品、能源和水（FEW）关系。该项目由美国国家科学基金会工程学部的CBET分部和MPS学部的CHE分部共同资助。为了理解FEW关系以及食物、能源和水之间的相关权衡，研讨会将汇集系统分析和指标方面的专家，目的是为评估食物-能源-水关系制定所需的研究、教育和应用可持续性指标和系统思维的路线图。该研讨会将有助于确定专业协会的作用，以及它们如何促进政府、工业界和学术界之间的合作。研讨会将讨论复杂系统分析与可持续性指标框架相结合的困难研究方面。在研究食品供应链中各个关键加工区域的食品、能源和水的关系时，将总结当前测量复杂系统权衡的方法的评估，并确定额外的研究需求。如何限定和量化能源和水对食品供应链的复杂影响和相互作用，将会有研究和教育方面的影响，应该通过一个强大和协调的研究项目来解决。这项工作将开始为继续进行所需的工作奠定基础，以期确定分析这些系统的共同框架。将讨论生命周期、可持续性投资回报率、p -图、生态效率以及最近使用的粮农组织多指标评估方法，并确定共性和差异以及应用于联系分析所需的改进。讲习班的结果将是评价和总结衡量这些系统的各种方法。将讨论生命周期、可持续性投资回报率、p -图、生态效率以及最近使用的粮农组织多指标评估方法，并确定共性和差异以及应用于联系分析所需的改进。重点将放在处理食品生产的食品供应链上：从农业到加工、运输和最终使用。还将特别注意食物浪费问题及其对能源和水的相关影响。来自私营部门的化学、土木、电气、环境和机械方面的工程师以及研究食品系统的社会学家将参与其中，AIChE将维持一个虚拟网络，以实现持续的合作。

1541883 (Schuster). This workshop will develop the systems framework and associated metrics for evaluation of the nexus of food, energy and water (FEW) along key processing areas of the food supply chain. The workship is being jointly funded by the CBET Division in the ENG Directorate and the CHE Division in the MPS Directorate at NSF. In order for the FEW nexus to be understood along with the associated tradeoffs among food, energy, and water, the workshop will bring together experts in systems analysis and metrics with the aim of developing a roadmap of needed research, education, and application of sustainability metrics and systems thinking for the assessment of the food-energy-water nexus. The workshop will help to define the roles of professional societies and how they can foster collaborations between government, industry, and academia.The workshop will address the difficult research aspects of complex systems analysis coupled with sustainability metrics frameworks. Assessment of current approaches to measure tradeoffs in complex systems will be summarized along with identification of the additional research needs when studying the nexus of food, energy and water along the various key processing areas along the food supply chain. How to qualify and quantify the complex impacts and interplay of energy and water on the food supply chain will have research as well as educational ramifications that should be addressed by a robust and coordinated research program. This work will begin to set the stage for continued needed work hoping to identify a common framework for analysis of such systems. Lifecycle, Sustainability ROI, P-Graphs, Eco-efficiency, and the more recently used FAO approach for multiple metric assessments will be addressed and commonalities and differences and needed enhancements for application to the nexus analysis will be identified. The outcome of the workshop will be both the evaluation and summary of various ways to measure such systems. Lifecycle, Sustainability ROI, P-Graphs, Eco-efficiency, and the more recently used FAO approach for multiple metric assessments will be addressed and commonalities and differences and needed enhancements for application to the nexus analysis will be identified. A focus will be on the food supply chains dealing with food production: from agriculture, to processing, to transportation, and to end use. Special attention will also be paid to the issue of food waste and its associated impacts on energy and water. Engineers from the private sector from chemical, civil, electrical, environmental and mechanical perspectives along with sociologists studying food systems will be engaged and a virtual network will be sustained by AIChE to enable continued collaboration.