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Water, energy, and food are among the most critically important resources for society. The demand for these resources is likely to increase in the coming decades because of global population growth, climate change, and other socioeconomic forces. This chapter provides a brief outline of some potential impacts and feedbacks of how Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus concepts may help local managers and stakeholders in California, USA design optimal groundwater sustainability plans to best meet the diverse interests in groundwater resources while implementing the State’s new (2014) Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) law. Sustainable groundwater resources will in turn likely increase the resilience of the WEF Nexus across California.
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This research was financially supported by the R-08 Project, entitled “Human-Environmental Security in Asia-Pacific Ring of Fire: Water-Energy-Food Nexus” the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. This chapter benefited from insightful discussions about the WEF Nexus with Ellen Doudna and Dr. Leora Nanus from San Francisco State University and Drs. Makoto Taniguchi and Aiko Endo from the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.
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Gurdak, J.J. (2018). The Water-Energy-Food Nexus and California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. In: Endo, A., Oh, T. (eds) The Water-Energy-Food Nexus. Global Environmental Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7383-0_11
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