Understanding and conceptualizing how urban green and blue infrastructure affects the food, water, and energy nexus: A synthesis of the literature
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Cross-scale and cross-sector urban planning, such as blue-green infrastructure and food-water-energy nexus planning, is often nonexistent or lacking integration.
“Further, cross-scale and cross-sector urban planning, such as in the case of blue-green infrastructure and food–water–energy nexus planning, is often nonexistent or lacking integration (38, 71).”
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How do we best synergize climate mitigation actions to co‐benefit biodiversity?
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Climate Resilient Cities: A Review of Blue-Green Solutions Worldwide
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Self-citationAir pollution abatement from Green-Blue-Grey infrastructure
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A comprehensive classification of food–energy–water nexus optimization studies: State of the art
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Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions
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“Further, cross - scale and cross - sector urban planning, such as in the case of blue - green infrastructure and food–water–energy nexus planning, is often nonexistent or lacking integration ( 38 , 71 ).”
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Challenges to Promote Sustainability in Urban Agriculture Models: A Review
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Urban encroachment in ecologically sensitive areas: drivers, impediments and consequences
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Green infrastructure sustains the food-energy-water-habitat nexus
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Tradeoff optimization of urban roof systems oriented to food-water-energy nexus
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Adaptive governance in the water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus for sustainable community sanitation
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Laboratory performance assessment of low-cost water level sensor for field monitoring in the tropics
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What Can Cities Do to Enhance Water-Energy-Food Nexus as a Sustainable Development Strategy?
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Urban Energy Management—A Systematic Literature Review
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Water, Energy, and Food Nexus in Pakistan: Parametric and Non-Parametric Analysis
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Zhang, K., Huang, P., & Chui, T. F. M. (2022) · Journal of Hydrologic Engineering · doi:10.1061/(asce)he.1943-5584.0002181 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Tang, J., & Ding, W. (2024) · Sustainable Cities and Society · doi:10.1016/j.scs.2024.105433 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Shaping Resilient Edible Cities: Innovative Aquaponics for Sustainable Food–Water–Energy Nexus
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Bridging local and global vulnerabilities for an integrated assessment of nature-based solutions
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Challenges and Opportunities in Adopting Blue-Green Infrastructure in Cities of the Developing World
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Social value of a Canadian urban food bank garden
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Concept of Sustainable Energy System for Smart Cities
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Multiscale Drivers and Thresholds of Urban Ecosystem Service Supply–Demand Relationships
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Reviewing The Indicators for Assessing Construction Company and Project Performance
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Research Progress in Facility Agriculture and Lighting by Bibliometric Analysis Based on CiteSpace
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CIDADES SUSTENTÁVEIS E CONCEITOS CORRELATOS: UMA REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA DE LITERATURA
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Toward Sustainable Communities in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of the Global South
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- Authors
- Bellezoni, R. A., Meng, F., He, P., & Seto, K. C.
- Affiliations
- Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (BR)
- Yale University (US)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Bellezoni, Rodrigo A.
- Meng, Fanxin
- Venue
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-03
- Volume
- 289
- Pages
- 125825
- ISSN
- 0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3118468449
- Cited by
- 80
- References
- 103
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 3.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (am, 316 d)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Locations
- Journal of Cleaner Production (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe
- National Science Foundation
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Keywords
- blue-green infrastructure, urban sustainability, urban agriculture, food security, energy conservation, climate change mitigation, food safety, water pollution, resource efficiency, integrated resource management, urban policy
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