Imperial College London
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DrIainStaffell

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9570i.staffell

 
 
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202Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@unpublished{Vinca:2019:10.5194/gmd-2019-134,
author = {Vinca, A and Parkinson, S and Byers, E and Burek, P and Khan, Z and Krey, V and Diuana, FA and Wang, Y and Ilyas, A and Köberle, AC and Staffell, I and Pfenninger, S and Muhammad, A and Rowe, A and Schaeffer, R and Rao, ND and Wada, Y and Djilali, N and Riahi, K},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-2019-134},
publisher = {Copernicus Publications},
title = {The Nexus Solutions Tool (NEST): An open platform for optimizingmulti-scale energy-water-land system transformations},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-134},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - UNPB
AB  - The energy-water-land nexus represents a critical leverage future policies must draw upon to reduce trade-offs between sustainable development objectives. Yet, existing long-term planning tools do not provide the scope or level of integration across the nexus to unravel important development constraints. Moreover, existing tools and data are not always made openly available or are implemented across disparate modeling platforms that can be difficult to link directly with modern scientific computing tools and databases. In this paper, we present the Nexus Solutions Tool (NEST): a new open modeling platform that integrates multi-scale energy-water-land resource optimization with distributed hydrological modeling. The new approach provides insights into the vulnerability of water, energy and land resources to future socioeconomic and climatic change and how multi-sectoral policies, technological solutions and investments can improve the resilience and sustainability of transformation pathways while avoiding counterproductive interactions among sectors. NEST can be applied at different spatial and temporal resolutions, and is designed specifically to tap into the growing body of open access geospatial data available through national inventories and the earth system modeling community. A case study analysis of the Indus River Basin in South Asia demonstrates the capability of the model to capture important interlinkages across system transformation pathways towards the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, including the intersections between local and regional transboundary policies and incremental investment costs from rapidly increasing regional consumption projected over the coming decades.
AU  - Vinca,A
AU  - Parkinson,S
AU  - Byers,E
AU  - Burek,P
AU  - Khan,Z
AU  - Krey,V
AU  - Diuana,FA
AU  - Wang,Y
AU  - Ilyas,A
AU  - Köberle,AC
AU  - Staffell,I
AU  - Pfenninger,S
AU  - Muhammad,A
AU  - Rowe,A
AU  - Schaeffer,R
AU  - Rao,ND
AU  - Wada,Y
AU  - Djilali,N
AU  - Riahi,K
DO  - 10.5194/gmd-2019-134
PB  - Copernicus Publications
PY  - 2019///
TI  - The Nexus Solutions Tool (NEST): An open platform for optimizingmulti-scale energy-water-land system transformations
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-134
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/101671
ER  -
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