Nexus of Sustainability: Understanding of FEWSE Systems II is a 2026 Springer monograph detailing the interdependencies between food, energy, water, society, and the environment (FEWSE). It focuses on risk management, robust modeling, and sustainable development, featuring recent research of the joint research project between IIASA and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU, Ukraine NMO at IIASA) on “Integrated modeling for robust management of food-energy-water-land use nexus for sustainable development”.
The monograph was published with the assistance of NASU, Committee for System Analysis of NASU (more information see here), and edited by the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Academician of the NAS of Ukraine Anatoly Zagorodny, First Vice-President of the NAS of Ukraine, Academician of the NAS of Ukraine Vyacheslav Bogdanov, Deputy Director for Scientific and Organizational Work of the Institute of General Power Engineering of the NAS of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences Artur Zaporozhets, and Research Fellow of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria), Doctor of Philosophy Tatiana Ermolieva.
The monograph emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sustainable development problems in the context of modern global challenges, in particular climate change, depletion of natural resources, growth of systemic risks, and socio-economic inequality. The key message of the monograph stresses deep interconnections and feedbacks in the FEWSE systems, the interdependencies largely determining sustainability and resilience of modern economies and societies.
Among the scientific approaches and methodological tools used in the research are dynamic stochastic optimization, Big Data analysis and Machine Learning methods, data and models’ scaling techniques. The monograph highlights robust and resilient decision-making approaches needed for establishing appropriate balance between ex-ante anticipative (proactive) risk reduction (e.g., resilient technological infrastructure, diversified resources) with ex-post operational crisis response (e.g., emergency planning, financial and technological backstop technologies) for increasing FEWE nexus security and resilience, as it is underlined by IIASA and NASU joint research.
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