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Water Energy Food Nexus in Urbanizing Wetlands: Challenges and Solutions Explored through Choremes and Focus Maps

Dragos BALAICAN
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Katrin Teubner
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Mihaela-Iuliana Tudor
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Iulian NICHERSU
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Adrian Burada
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Cristian Trifanov
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Marian Tudor
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Catalina Iticescu
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Luminita Moraru
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Puiu Lucian Georgescu
Version 1 : Received: 19 February 2024 / Approved: 20 February 2024 / Online: 20 February 2024 (17:25:10 CET)

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Balaican, D.; Teubner, K.; Tudor, I.-M.; Nichersu, I.; Burada, A.; Trifanov, C.; Tudor, M.; Iticescu, C.; Moraru, L.; Georgescu, P.-L. Water Energy Food Nexus in Urbanizing Wetlands: Challenges and Solutions Explored through Choremes and Focus Maps. Water 2024, 16, 922. Balaican, D.; Teubner, K.; Tudor, I.-M.; Nichersu, I.; Burada, A.; Trifanov, C.; Tudor, M.; Iticescu, C.; Moraru, L.; Georgescu, P.-L. Water Energy Food Nexus in Urbanizing Wetlands: Challenges and Solutions Explored through Choremes and Focus Maps. Water 2024, 16, 922.

Abstract

Managing Water, Energy, and Food (WEF) resources within socio-environmental systems demands innovative strategies that provide decision-makers with actionable insights. This article explores the challenges and potential solutions of employing Focus Maps and choremes as a novel approach for assessing anthropogenic impacts and enhancing the visualization of the WEF Nexus in specific geographic areas. By integrating geospatial data, multi-criteria analysis, and involving stakeholders, our research aims to develop Choreomatic Focus Maps (CFMs) that offer a comprehensive spatial representation of the WEF Nexus, facilitating better-informed decision-making at the community level. Our current work outlines visualization of WEF Nexus, as an initial stages of creating CFMs through a detailed step-by-step process. This includes identifying the main drivers for WEF nexus, such as anthropogenic activities and their distribution, evaluating environmental factors, linking anthropogenic impact with environmental indicators over time, and conducting on-site validation. Our focus is on advancing through these crucial steps, particularly emphasizing field validation within the Local Decision-Makers Tools, visualized here by using Focus Maps. This phase is vital for ensuring our approach is grounded in reality and meets the needs of the communities within the Danube Delta region. By doing so, we aim to provide a visual summary of the WEF Nexus that not only captures the complexity of this fragile ecosystem but also incorporates local insights and priorities, identifying key areas where human activities have significant impacts.

Keywords

decision makers visualization tools; WEF nexus visualization; Choremes; Focus maps

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Water Science and Technology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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