Unpacking the WEF Nexus Index: A Regional and Sub-Regional Analysis of Northern Canada
The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has emerged as a leading tool for assessing integrated resource management strategies and for monitoring progress towards the WEF-related Sustainable Development Goals. A notable outcome of WEF nexus research has been the calculation of the global WEF Nexus Index, w...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:cfd05e5f04484fea915f83792e08b06e 2023-05-15T15:09:59+02:00 Unpacking the WEF Nexus Index: A Regional and Sub-Regional Analysis of Northern Canada Shawn Ingram Ana-Maria Bogdan Tayyab Shah Xiaojing Lu Meng Li Michaela Sidloski David Natcher 2021-12-01 https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313338 https://doaj.org/article/cfd05e5f04484fea915f83792e08b06e en eng MDPI AG doi:10.3390/su132313338 2071-1050 https://doaj.org/article/cfd05e5f04484fea915f83792e08b06e undefined Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 13338, p 13338 (2021) WEF nexus northern Canada arctic Sustainable Development Goals water security energy security scipo envir Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2021 fttriple https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313338 2023-01-22T17:58:38Z The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has emerged as a leading tool for assessing integrated resource management strategies and for monitoring progress towards the WEF-related Sustainable Development Goals. A notable outcome of WEF nexus research has been the calculation of the global WEF Nexus Index, which provides a quantitative ranking of country-level WEF security for 170 nations. As valuable as this ranking is, the aggregation of country-level WEF data obscures regional differences, particularly in remote regions that are sparsely populated and differ in geography, economy, and climate. This has proven to be the case for northern Canada, which despite representing 40% of Canada’s total land area, accounts for less than 1% of the Canadian population, most of whom are Indigenous. Whereas Canada ranks 5th globally in their WEF security, northern Canada, if treated independently, would rank 67th on the global WEF Nexus Index rankings. Evaluating each WEF sector independently, northern Canada would rank 22nd in water security, 90th in energy security, and 113th in food security. Our results further reveal that considerable inter-regional variability exists between northern territories and provinces, where Nunavik would rank 54th, Northwest Territories 67th, Yukon 69th, Labrador 80th, and Nunavut 107th on the global index. By highlighting these differences, we hope that this research can aid decision-makers in developing informed, regionally specific, and integrative resource policy responses that remedy rather than amplify existing WEF-related inequalities. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northwest Territories Nunavut Nunavik Yukon Unknown Arctic Canada Northwest Territories Nunavik Nunavut Yukon Sustainability 13 23 13338 |
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The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus has emerged as a leading tool for assessing integrated resource management strategies and for monitoring progress towards the WEF-related Sustainable Development Goals. A notable outcome of WEF nexus research has been the calculation of the global WEF Nexus Index, which provides a quantitative ranking of country-level WEF security for 170 nations. As valuable as this ranking is, the aggregation of country-level WEF data obscures regional differences, particularly in remote regions that are sparsely populated and differ in geography, economy, and climate. This has proven to be the case for northern Canada, which despite representing 40% of Canada’s total land area, accounts for less than 1% of the Canadian population, most of whom are Indigenous. Whereas Canada ranks 5th globally in their WEF security, northern Canada, if treated independently, would rank 67th on the global WEF Nexus Index rankings. Evaluating each WEF sector independently, northern Canada would rank 22nd in water security, 90th in energy security, and 113th in food security. Our results further reveal that considerable inter-regional variability exists between northern territories and provinces, where Nunavik would rank 54th, Northwest Territories 67th, Yukon 69th, Labrador 80th, and Nunavut 107th on the global index. By highlighting these differences, we hope that this research can aid decision-makers in developing informed, regionally specific, and integrative resource policy responses that remedy rather than amplify existing WEF-related inequalities. |
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Unpacking the WEF Nexus Index: A Regional and Sub-Regional Analysis of Northern Canada |
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