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Special Issue

Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Building Future Resilience through Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2027 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

G.-Fivos Sargentis, Ph.D. ORCID logo

Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou, Greece

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Research Interests: Issues of prosperity; Water-Energy-Food nexus; Natural Hazards; Civil Engineering; Art & Aesthetics

About This Topic

The Water–Energy–Food (WEF) nexus has emerged as a critical framework for understanding the interdependencies among the essential resources that sustain human societies and ecosystems. Ignoring the WEF nexus linkages can lead to inefficiencies and unintended consequences, while integrated approaches are increasingly recognized as necessary to address resource scarcity, climate pressures, and societal demands

Across civilizations, communities developed integrated systems for managing water, energy, and food resources under conditions of environmental variability and scarcity. Traditional irrigation systems, terraced agriculture, water harvesting techniques, and localized resource management practices reveal adaptive strategies that support long-term resilience and self-sufficiency. Revisiting these historical perspectives can enrich contemporary approaches to sustainability and resource governance.

This Special Issue invites interdisciplinary contributions that approach the WEF nexus as an interconnected system of systems, with particular emphasis on the role of history, heritage, and traditional knowledge in shaping resilient futures. We encourage submissions grounded in transparent, reproducible, and data-driven methodologies that advance critical dialogue across disciplines and scales, contributing to a deeper understanding of the nexus as a cornerstone of sustainable and thriving societies.

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