期刊
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 689, 期 -, 页码 945-957出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.422
关键词
WEF nexus; Wicked problem; Desalination; Renewable energy; MuSIASEM; Canary Islands
资金
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [689669]
- Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, through the Maria de Maeztu program for Units of Excellence [MDM-2015-0552]
Desalination is increasingly put forward as a sustainable local solution to water scarcity in combination with the exploitation of renewable energy sources. However, the complexity of the resource nexus entails the unavoidable existence of pros and cons across its various dimensions that can only be assessed at different scales of analysis. In turn, these pros and cons entail different winners and losers among the different social actors linked through the nexus. To address these challenges, a novel approach to resource nexus assessment is put forward, based on multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM) and recognizing the resource nexus as a wicked problem. The integrated representation identifies the existence of biophysical constraints determined by processes both under human control (in the technosphere) and beyond human control (in the biosphere). The approach is illustrated with a local case study of desalination in the Canary Islands, Spain. The material presented has been generated in the context of the project Moving towards adaptive governance in complexity: Informing nexus security (MAGIC) for use in participatory processes of co-production of knowledge claims about desalination, a prerequisite for informed policy deliberation. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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