Victor Pascual's research while affiliated with Starlab Barcelona SL and other places

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The call for measuring synergies and trade-offs between water, energy, and food is increasing worldwide. This article presents the development and application of a country-level index that has been calculated for 181 nations using open databases. Following an assessment of 87 water-, energy-, and food-related indicators, 21 were selected to constit...
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The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus has, in the past decade, gained prominence as an approach for assessing integrated resource management. One challenge related to the WEF nexus approach is how to represent and monitor it since a system that includes water-, energy- and food-related parameters is complex. Not only are these resources quantified util...

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... Moreover, it has a considerably high water footprint (Hoekstra and Chapagain 2011), which, together with the deterioration of water infrastructure (Kang 2019), threatens water security. Therefore, the availability aspect of WEF resources is particularly vulnerable (Simpson et al 2022). Integrating the interaction between WEF security and the nexus approach can prove helpful in achieving sustainable resource management in society. ...
... One of these challenges is to perform a fair evaluation of the WEF nexus, which involves the inherent interrelation of its resources as well as social, environmental, and economic impact metrics. Several research studies have focused on assessing the viability and sustainability of the WEF nexus (Simpson et al. 2020). Other researchers, at the investment level, have focused on institutional policies and governance (Pahl-Wostl et al. 2021). ...