TY - GEN
T1 - Synergizing food-energy-water (few) resources for sustainable benefits
AU - Agbenyeku, Emmanuel Emem Obong
AU - Muzenda, Edison
AU - Msibi, Innocent Mandla
AU - Masebinu, Samson Oluwasegun
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The drastic pursuit of economic, urbanized and globalized growth in recent decades have impacted severely on the natural ecosystem and available resources. The insistent climate change is further sustained by enormous food and energy production wastages. This also accounts for the increased tension on water supply and organic practices as consequences of an upset ecosystem; leading to unstable temperature changes, changes to normal weather patterns, floods and drought, melting glaciers and rising sea heads-All to which potentially affects the sustenance of man and the environment. As such, synergizing the food-energy-water (FEW) scarce resources and understanding their potential interactive merits as against their isolated short lived advantages have become an area of interest in recent years. This has driven the discuss herein towards the sustainable benefits of knotting the FEW scarce resources, as all three elements must be unified for ensured beneficial outcomes. The paper also highlighted the FEW interactive challenges and pathways of resource conservation particularly, in the dire need for food security in present time. The paper therefore holds a general discuss that posits the interactive link between the limited FEW resources as a platform towards sustainable conservative benefits of all three elements to man and the environment.
AB - The drastic pursuit of economic, urbanized and globalized growth in recent decades have impacted severely on the natural ecosystem and available resources. The insistent climate change is further sustained by enormous food and energy production wastages. This also accounts for the increased tension on water supply and organic practices as consequences of an upset ecosystem; leading to unstable temperature changes, changes to normal weather patterns, floods and drought, melting glaciers and rising sea heads-All to which potentially affects the sustenance of man and the environment. As such, synergizing the food-energy-water (FEW) scarce resources and understanding their potential interactive merits as against their isolated short lived advantages have become an area of interest in recent years. This has driven the discuss herein towards the sustainable benefits of knotting the FEW scarce resources, as all three elements must be unified for ensured beneficial outcomes. The paper also highlighted the FEW interactive challenges and pathways of resource conservation particularly, in the dire need for food security in present time. The paper therefore holds a general discuss that posits the interactive link between the limited FEW resources as a platform towards sustainable conservative benefits of all three elements to man and the environment.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992725800
T3 - Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
SP - 632
EP - 636
BT - WCECS 2015 - World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2015
A2 - Douglas, Craig
A2 - Burgstone, Jon
A2 - Grundfest, Warren S.
A2 - Burgstone, Jon
A2 - Douglas, Craig
A2 - Ao, S. I.
PB - Newswood Limited
T2 - 2015 World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, WCECS 2015
Y2 - 21 October 2015 through 23 October 2015
ER -