Acknowledgments:

The materials are based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Addressing Decision Support for Water Stressed FEW Nexus Decisions Numbered 1739977.
Some materials are based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant INFEWS/T1: A Modeling Framework to Understand the coupling of Food, Energy, and Water in the Teleconnected Corn and Cotton Belts Numbered 1639327.

Journal Articles

• Daher, B., Mohtar, R. H., Pistikopoulos, E.N., Portney, K.E., Kaiser, R., and Saad, W. (2018). Developing socio-techno-econo-political (STEP) solutions for addressing resource nexus hotspots. Sustainability 2018, 10, 512; doi:10.3390/su10020512. Download
• Stephan, R.M., R.H. Mohtar, B. Daher, A.E. Irujo, A. Hillers, J.C. Ganter, L. Karlberg, L. Martin, S. Nairizi, D.J. Rodriguez, and W. Sarni (2018): Water–energy–food nexus: a platform for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, Water International, DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2018.1446581. Download
• Daher, Bassel, Sang-Hyun Lee, Vishakha Kaushik, John Blake, Mohammad H. Askariyeh, Hamid Shafiezadeh, Sonia Zamaripa, and Rabi H. Mohtar. “Towards bridging the water gap in Texas: A water-energy-food nexus approach.” Science of the total environment 647 (2019): 449-463.
• Daher, B., Hanibal, B., Portney, K., Mohtar, R.H., Towards Creating an Environment of Cooperation between Water, Energy, and Food Stakeholders in San Antonio. Science of the Total Environment 651 (2019) 2913–2926. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.395. Download
• Fei, C.C. , and B.A. McCarl, “Addressing uncertainty in adaptation planning for agriculture”, US CLIVAR VARIATIONS, Summer 2018 • Vol.16, No.3, 2018. Download
• McCarl, Bruce A., Yingqian Yang, Kurt Schwabe, Bernard A. Engel, Alam Hossain Mondal, Claudia Ringler, and Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos. “Model use in WEF nexus analysis: A review of issues.” Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports 4, no. 3 (2017): 144-152. Download
• McCarl, Bruce A., Yingqian Yang, Raghavan Srinivasan, Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos, and Rabi H. Mohtar. “Data for WEF nexus analysis: A review of issues.” Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports 4, no. 3 (2017): 137-143. Download

Book Chapters

• McCarl, B.A., and Y.Q. Yang, “Economic Considerations When Appraising Nexus Decision-Making”, Food-Energy-Water Nexus, edited by Peter Saundry, forthcoming, 2019. Download

Project Reports

• Rosen, Rudolph A, Bassell Daher and Rabi H Mohtar, 2018 Water – Energy – Food Nexus Stakeholder Information Sharing and Engagement Report Workshop. The Texas A&M University System, College Station Texas. Download

Invited Papers

• Daher, B., Mohtar, R.H. et al (2018). Multi-stakeholder Dialogue: Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus and Implementing the SDGs. IWRA Policy Brief No. 2.
• McCarl, B.A., C.J. Fei, and Y.Q. Yang, “Climate Change, Bioenergy and Population Growth as they Stress the Food-Energy-Water Nexus”, Presented at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, May, 2018.Download
• McCarl, B.A., C.J. Fei, and Y.Q. Yang, “Climate Change, Bioenergy and Population Growth as they Stress the Food-Energy-Water Nexus”, Presented at Nanjing Agricultural University Conference on Climate Change and Agricultural Bioenergy, Nanjing China, May, 2018. Download
• Mohtar, R.H., and B.A. McCarl, “Water-Energy-Food Nexus Initiative”, Presented at Energy Institute Advisory Board Meeting, December, 2017.

Selected Papers

• Daher, B., R.H. Mohtar Experience shared on San Antonio Case Study starting at Water-Energy-Food Nexus Initiative and moving to current activity with INFEWS. Panelist in session on “Nexus Partnerships: Sharing Experiences and Lessons Learned” organized by UNHABITAT and United Nations University, North Carolina State University, 2018.
• Daher, B., Hannibal, B., Portney, K., Mohtar, H. “Towards understanding the level of communication between Water-Energy-Food Government Organizations in San Antonio”, International Conference for Sustainable Development, Columbia University. September 2018.
• Daher, B., R.H. Mohtar, E.N. Pistikopoulos, B.A. McCarl, and Y.Q. Yang, “Modeling Resource Hotspots: Critical Linkages and Processes”, Presented at American Geophysical Union Meeting, New Orleans, 2017.
• Fei, C.J., Y.Q. Yang, B.A. McCarl, R.C. Allen, Y. Nie, and E.N. Pistikopoulos, “Economics of Energy Sector Water Use Alterations in Water Stressed Regions”, presentation at TAMU energy conference, 2018.Download
• Fei, C.J., B.A. McCarl, and Y.Q. Yang, “FEW Nexus Water Scarcity”, TAMU Agricultural Economics, 2018. Download
• McCarl, B.A., “EDSIMR – a regional FEW model”, paper for small seminar of WEF Nexus modeling for NSF team, 2018. Download
• McCarl, B.A., “Report for Modeling Team”, Presented at WEF Meeting in San Antonio, 2018.
• Yang, Y.Q., C.J. Fei, and B.A. McCarl, “Climate Change and the Comparative Cost of Conserved Water via Electrical Cooling Options: A FEW Nexus Case Study in South Central Texas”, presentation at energy student group meeting, 2018.Download
• Thayer, A.W., and B.A. McCarl, “At what cost: exploring the nature and impacts of water rights transfers in the Edwards Aquifer”, Selected paper prepared for Annual Meetings of Western Agricultural Economics Association, Anchorage, 2018.

Videos

• McCarl, B.A., C.J. Fei, P. Arunanondchai, “Economics and the Food Energy Water Nexus”, University of Maryland, April 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpC8e7oaWtM

Previous Work and References (Paper in this section is not funded by NSF project 1739977 or 1639327)

• Keplinger, Keith O., Bruce A. McCarl, Manzoor E. Chowdhury, and Ronald D. Lacewell. “Economic and hydrologie implications of suspending irrigation in dry years.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (1998): 191-205. Download
• McCarl, B.A. , L.L. Jones, R.D. Lacewell, K.O. Keplinger, M.E. Chowdhury, and K. Yu, Evaluation of Dry Year Option: Water Transfers from Agricultural Use to Urban Use, Technical report 175 Texas Water Resources Institute, 169, 1997. Download
• Ding, Jinxiu. “Three Essays on Climate Variability, Water and Agricultural Production.” PhD diss., 2014. Download