Water Energy Food: WEFWEBs

地球的水、能源和粮食系统（世界经济论坛）正处于压力之下，有时被描述为“完美风暴”。它们都是内在联系和相互依赖的（关系），人类需要规划一条路线，以确保可持续性，并在理想的世界中，公平获取资源。WEFWEBs项目将审查水、能源和粮食系统及其在地方、区域和国家环境中的相互作用和依赖关系的数据和证据。我们需要在我们的主要系统正在走向的三个有时相反的方向之间保持平衡，以确保我们保护我们的生态系统，同时仍然能够在需求不断增加的世界中可持续地生活。为了研究这些系统及其依赖关系和相互作用，我们需要将物理、环境计算和数学科学、经济学、社会科学、心理学和政策等众多不同学科结合起来。这三个系统中的每一个都需要通过现有的关于它们的流动、资源和影响的数据来研究，也需要通过个人和公民对系统的理解来研究。我们将收集、综合和吸收现有数据，以及使用新的传感技术和社交媒体收集的新数据模型。我们将在三个基于地点的研究中检查关系的多个维度，在这些研究中，我们可以探索和检查数据分析、过程和网络模型以及社会感知的输出。该项目提供了多个动态的WEF关联图，其空间层次跨越了问题的维度，反映了当前的状态和变化，以及主要系统在空间和时间上的相互作用。目前，英国还没有对整个多尺度世界经济论坛关系进行批判性的系统性、参与性、多利益相关者的映射，而这个项目在多学科和多种方法方面提供了创新，包括系统干预、数据分析和群体外包技术，以绘制世界经济论坛关系。最终，wefweb将使公民和决策者更好地了解所做的选择和决定的影响。

The water, energy and food systems (the WEF) of the planet are under strain, sometimes described as the "perfect storm". They are all intrinsically linked and inter-dependent (the nexus), and humanity needs to plot a course to ensure sustainability and in an ideal world, equity of access to resources.The WEFWEBs project will examine the data and evidence for the water, energy and food systems and their interactions and dependencies within the local, regional and national environment. We need to maintain a balance between the three sometimes opposing directions that our primary systems are moving in to ensure that we safeguard our ecosystems, while still being able to live sustainably, in a world where demands are increasing. To study these systems and their dependencies and interactions, we need to bring together a multitude of different disciplines from the physical, environmental computational and mathematical sciences, with economics, social science, psychology and policy. Each of the three systems needs to be studied through the data that exists concerning their flows, resources and impacts, but also through individual and civic understanding of the systems.We will collect, synthesise and assimilate existing data, and models with new data that will be collected using new sensing technology and social media. We will examine each of the multiple dimensions of the nexus in three place based studies where we can explore and examine the outputs from data analysis, process and network models, and social perceptions.This project delivers multiple dynamic WEF nexus maps with spatial level spanning the dimensions of the problem, reflecting current status and changes, and the interactions in the primary systems in space and time. There is currently no critically systemic, participatory, multi-stakeholder mapping of the entire multi-scale WEF nexus for the UK and this project offers innovation in terms of the multi-disciplinarity and variety of methods including systemic intervention, data analytics and crowd sourcing techniques to mapping the WEF nexus.Ultimately, WEFWEBs will provide a better understanding to citizens and policy makers alike of the effects of choices and decisions to be made.