TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrative technology hubs for urban food-energy-water nexuses and cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs (I)
T2 - Global trend and technology metrics
AU - Chang, Ni Bin
AU - Hossain, Uzzal
AU - Valencia, Andrea
AU - Qiu, Jiangxiao
AU - Zheng, Qipeng P.
AU - Gu, Lixing
AU - Chen, Mengnan
AU - Lu, Jia Wei
AU - Pires, Ana
AU - Kaandorp, Chelsea
AU - Abraham, Edo
AU - ten Veldhuis, Marie Claire
AU - van de Giesen, Nick
AU - Molle, Bruno
AU - Tomas, Severine
AU - Ait-Mouheb, Nassim
AU - Dotta, Deborah
AU - Declercq, Rémi
AU - Perrin, Martin
AU - Conradi, Léon
AU - Molle, Geoffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
The industrial symbiosis started in 1994 when the WTE was commissioned. However, until 2013, when the AD began operating, the synergy with WTE was not formally interconnected in an industrial symbiosis relationship. This project was financed by the Bavarian Ministry for Environment to test three synergies in total. The focus of the study was the minimization of GHG emissions, including methane and nitrous oxide, from the AD plant. The current MUP was capable of reducing 64% of GHG emissions. To reach a higher reduction of GHG emissions from the AD plant, a reduction of GHG emissions in the processes of postcomposting, purification, and stabilization of the fermentation residue should be investigated.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via decentralized and/or centralized facilities, there is an acute need to optimize FEW infrastructures by considering cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs with respect to multiple sustainability indicators. This paper identifies, categorizes, and analyzes global trends with respect to contemporary FEW technology metrics that highlights the possible optimal integration of a broad spectrum of technology hubs for possible cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs. The challenges related to multiscale and multiagent modeling processes for the simulation of urban FEW systems were discussed with respect to the aspects of scaling-up, optimization process, and risk assessment. Our review reveals that this field is growing at a rapid pace and the previous selection of analytical methodologies, nexus criteria, and sustainability indicators largely depended on individual FEW nexus conditions disparately, and full-scale cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs were very rare. Therefore, the potential full-scale technology integration in three ongoing cases of urban FEW systems in Miami (the United States), Marseille (France), and Amsterdam (the Netherlands) were demonstrated in due purpose finally.
AB - The Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability needs to be analyzed via an integrative rather than a sectoral or silo approach, reflecting the ongoing transition from separate infrastructure systems to an integrated social-ecological-infrastructure system. As technology hubs can provide food, energy, water resources via decentralized and/or centralized facilities, there is an acute need to optimize FEW infrastructures by considering cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs with respect to multiple sustainability indicators. This paper identifies, categorizes, and analyzes global trends with respect to contemporary FEW technology metrics that highlights the possible optimal integration of a broad spectrum of technology hubs for possible cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs. The challenges related to multiscale and multiagent modeling processes for the simulation of urban FEW systems were discussed with respect to the aspects of scaling-up, optimization process, and risk assessment. Our review reveals that this field is growing at a rapid pace and the previous selection of analytical methodologies, nexus criteria, and sustainability indicators largely depended on individual FEW nexus conditions disparately, and full-scale cost-benefit-risk tradeoffs were very rare. Therefore, the potential full-scale technology integration in three ongoing cases of urban FEW systems in Miami (the United States), Marseille (France), and Amsterdam (the Netherlands) were demonstrated in due purpose finally.
KW - Cost-benefit-risk tradeoff
KW - food-energy-water nexus
KW - technology hubs integration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084418793&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10643389.2020.1759328
DO - 10.1080/10643389.2020.1759328
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084418793
VL - 51
SP - 1397
EP - 1442
JO - Critical Reviews In Environmental Science And Technology
JF - Critical Reviews In Environmental Science And Technology
SN - 1064-3389
IS - 13
ER -