Viticulture and winemaking are important socioeconomic sectors in many European regions.
Climate plays a vital role in the terroir of a given wine region, as it strongly controls canopy …

Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

The areas of energy, water and food policy have numerous interwoven concerns ranging
from ensuring access to services, to environmental impacts to price volatility. These issues …

Surface freshwaters—lakes, reservoirs, and rivers—are among the most extensively altered
ecosystems on Earth. Transformations include changes in the morphology of rivers and …

Recently, an active debate has emerged around greenhouse gas emissions due to indirect
land use change (iLUC) of expanding agricultural areas dedicated to biofuel production. In …

Major environmental functions and human needs critically depend on water. In regions of
the world affected by water scarcity economic activities can be constrained by water …

In the face of meeting Sustainable Development Goals for the water–food–energy–
ecosystems nexus, integrated assessments are a great means to measure the impact of …

To enhance global water use assessment, the WaterGAP3 model was improved for back-
calculating domestic, manufacturing and thermoelectric water uses until 1950 for 177 …

Global agricultural production is heavily sustained by irrigation, but irrigation system
efficiencies are often surprisingly low. However, our knowledge of irrigation efficiencies is …

Water management faces great challenges over the coming decades. Pressures include
stricter water-quality standards, increasing demand for water and the need to adapt to …