Vulnerabilities and opportunities at the nexus of electricity, water and climate

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ID15547423
AutoresPeter C Frumhoff (0000-0002-5037-919X, United States Geological Survey, autor correspondente), Virginia Burkett (0000-0003-4746-2862, United States Geological Survey), Robert B Jackson (0000-0001-8846-7147, Stanford University), R L Newmark (National Laboratory of the Rockies), Robin Newmark, Jonathan T Overpeck (0000-0002-3843-9313, University of Arizona), Jonathan Overpeck, Michael Webber, Michael E Webber (0000-0003-1359-4680, The University of Texas at Austin)
Ano2015
Volume10
Fascículo8
Páginas080201-080201
Data de publicação2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironmental Research Letters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326
EditoraIOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/080201
OpenAlexW2147522687
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas21

The articles in this special issue examine the critical nexus of electricity, water, and climate, emphasizing connections among resources; the prospect of increasing vulnerabilities of water resources and electricity generation in a changing climate; and the opportunities for research to inform integrated energy and water policy and management measures aimed at increasing resilience. Here, we characterize several major themes emerging from this research and highlight some of the uptake of this work in both scientific and public spheres. Underpinning much of this research is the recognition that water resources are expected to undergo substantial changes based on the global warming that results primarily from fossil energy-based carbon emissions. At the same time, the production of electricity from fossil fuels, nuclear power, and some renewable technologies (biomass, geothermal and concentrating solar power) can be highly water-intensive. Energy choices now and in the near future will have a major impact not just on the global climate, but also on water supplies and the resilience of energy systems that currently depend heavily on them

Business · Climate change · Economics · Electricity · Electricity generation · Environmental economics · Environmental resource management · Fossil fuel · Global warming · Greenhouse gas · Natural resource economics · Nexus (standard · Nuclear power · Power (physics · Renewable energy · Resilience (materials science · Vulnerability (computing · Waste management · Water-energy nexus · Work (physics · Computer Science · Energy and Environment Impacts · Engineering · Environmental Science · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies · Ecology