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Revision of Decision/Making Tools for Sustainable Planning and Proposal of a Novel Conceptual Framework for the Energy-Water-Food Nexus

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Often, political decisions are taken without the necessary coordination of different administrations and without considering the impact that a political decision in one activity may have on additional activities (Medema et al. in Water 8:1–24, 2016 [1]; Eddington and Eddington in Res Comp Int Educ 6:255–272, 2011 [2]). A deficiency in coordination arises between different branches at the same hierarchy level, or between different levels, in the public administration. For instance, for a problem associated with a nation’s energy-related decisions, hydro-related resolutions are taken at a restricted area, without coordination between the two administration levels.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Enrique Rosales-Asensio

  2. Department of Electrical, Systems and Automation Engineering, University of Leon, León, Spain

    Francisco José García-Moya & David Borge-Diez

  3. Department of Electrical, Electronic, Control, Telematic, and Applied Chemistry Engineering, National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, Spain

    Antonio Colmenar-Santos

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Rosales-Asensio, E., García-Moya, F.J., Borge-Diez, D., Colmenar-Santos, A. (2022). Revision of Decision/Making Tools for Sustainable Planning and Proposal of a Novel Conceptual Framework for the Energy-Water-Food Nexus. In: Sea Water Desalination in Microgrids. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96678-2_2

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