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Managing FEW systems requires modeling tools to understand the merits of different decisions, policies, and investments given potential future constraints and the wider social, environmental, and economic contexts in which these are made. This chapter reviews integrated modeling tools used to support the analysis of FEW systems; especially those used for integrated planning; and the identification and evaluation of trade-offs and synergies.

Integrated FEW system models include representations of Coupled Natural-Human Systems (e.g., the energy system, agriculture and land use, water supply and use, the economy, and the climate). Through this integration, these models allow for exploration of FEW system interactions, and the interactions between these systems and other key external forces such as climate change, socioeconomic and technological change, and policy interventions. There is a clear relationship between FEW system modeling and the metrics reflecting interactions.

While several modeling frameworks are described in this book, only a small number of models and projects have been actually implemented in practice. Ongoing research and applications of FEW system modeling consist of the development of principles, algorithms, data requirements, and model formulations for understanding and evaluating the potential of implementing FEW system nexus approaches within a systems perspective. Outputs and products of these efforts are quantitative tools that focus on FEW system planning in order to identify primary opportunities and constraints to FEW system development, indicating priorities for more detailed analysis as well as providing a characterization of alternative system configurations that meet integrated FEW objectives.

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