High solar intensity levels across Qatar show that solar energy can be utilized to generate some of the Electric Power needs by the country. Thermal concentrated solar power can be used. Direct solar irradiance is utilized ...
Mohtar, Rabi H.; Lawford, Richard(The Texas AandM University System, )
The Future Earth Water-Energy-Food (W-E-F) cluster project and the Texas AM University System (TAMUS) collaborated to hold a workshop in Washington, DC on June 1-3, 2015. The workshop, entitled “Research gaps in the ...
Mohtar, Rabi H.; Keulertz, M; Sower, J.(Oxford University Press, )
Systems of producing, consuming, and distributing water, energy, and food involve trade-offs that are rarely explicitly considered by firms and policymakers. The idea of the water-energy-food “nexus” represents an attempt ...
This book presents an in-depth guide to the subject matter and main points of hydrostructural pedology, as theorized for the first time. The authors focus on the underlying concepts, the purpose and role this field plays ...
The water and energy nexus regional policy toolkit was prepared as part of the United Nations Development Account (UNDA) project on developing the capacity of ESCWA Member Countries to address the water and energy nexus ...
Renewable energy technologies can address trade-offs between water, energy and food, bringing substantial benefits in all three key sectors. This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) looks at how ...
Mohtar, Rabi H.; Braudeau, Erik F.; Belhouchette, H.(Elsevier, )
This special issue documents the peer reviewed proceedings and key themes of the French-American Symposium on Developing Partnerships for Sustainable Water Management and Agriculture in the context of Climate and Global ...
Mohtar, Rabi H.; Rosen, R.(The Texas AandM University System, )
The two-day event focused on expanding the scope of the Water, Energy, Food (WEF) Nexus dialogue. Water-related challenges in Texas are similar to those seen globally, such as climate variability that impacts multiple ...
Mohtar, Rabi H.; Castilla, AM; Al-Kubaisi DJ(Ministry of Enviornment, State of Qatar, )
This is the first comprehensive book that has ever been published worldwide on the lizards of Qatar. The authors have collected novel and updated data about the presence and distribution of the lizard species in Qatar, ...
Recognizing the urgent need to focus on sustainability in the water–energy–food nexus (WEF nexus) together with tools to analyze and approaches to govern the linkages at different scales, the Global Water System Project, ...
The review papers presented in this special issue all derive from an NSF sponsored workshop held in January 2017, in College Station, Texas: FEW Nexus Workshop on Integrated Science, Engineering, and Policy: a Multi ...
Growing demands for interconnected resources emerge in the form of hotspots with different characteristics. The business as usual allocation model will not be able to address the current and anticipated complex and highly ...
For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Globally praised as an “African success story” and heavily backed by international financial institutions, development agencies, ...
This book contains the abstracts of all papers, oral presentaions and posters submitted to the 6th Mediterranean Poultry Summit that was held in Torino, Italy, June 18–20, 2018.
This book provides a survey of technologies available to tackle the problems associated with climate change in the energy, water, and food security nexus with a special focus on the Middle East. It is divided into three ...
This book gathers abstracts of 114 papers submitted to the 5th Mediterranean Poultry Summit. Papers were divided into three parts: first, the 14 invited papers to be presented by international speakers from eleven different ...
Daghir, Nuhad J.; H. Khouri; G. Sayegh(The World’s Poultry Science Association, )
This book gathers abstracts of papers and posters submitted to the 4th Mediterranean Poultry Summit held in Lebanon, addressing a wide variety of timely topics with emphasis on the problems and challenges of the poultry ...
Philip McGregor is so fat that everyone either stares or sniggers as he passes by. At school he goes by the name of Porky. The day he collapses in the school canteen and is rushed to the hospital marks the start of his ...
In this informative book, Dr. Daghir presents a well-documented history of agricultural education at AUB from the early part of the 20th century to the current day. This account is preceded by an introductory chapter on ...
This book discusses the causes and effects of crisis and conflict within an agricultural and rural context. It explores the issue of competition over resources, and looks at how crisis and conflict impact upon developing ...