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Recognition of climatic conditions is essential in all FEW systems that are not within controlled environments. This chapter frames FEW systems in the context of both natural climate conditions and variations, and in the context of anthropogenic climate change. We explore how anthropogenic climate change and efforts to mitigate it are expected to impact FEW systems, individually and collectively. We will briefly look at climate modeling and the lessons for integrating food, energy, and water systems. Even without consideration of human-induced changes to the climate, many elements of FEW systems in many locations are unsustainable for non-climatic reasons, such as the degradation of local ecosystem functions. Thus, mitigating or adapting to climate change is only part of developing sustainable FEW systems that meet the needs of human societies.
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Saundry, P. (2020). Climate Change. In: Saundry, P., Ruddell, B. (eds) The Food-Energy-Water Nexus. AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29914-9_11
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