Fine-Scale Analysis of the Energy−Land−Water Nexus: Nitrate Leaching Implications of Biomass Cofiring in the Midwestern United States

08 Apr 2020 | Contributor(s): Shanxia Sun, Brayam Valqui Ordonez, Mort D. Webster, Jing Liu, Christopher J. Kucharik, Tom Hertel

As scientists seek to better understand the linkages between energy, water, and land systems, they confront a critical question of scale for their analysis. Many studies exploring this nexus restrict themselves to a small area in order to capture fine-scale processes, whereas other studies focus...

Using spatially explicit data to improve our understanding of land supply responses: An application to the cropland effects of global sustainable irrigation in the Americas

09 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

Land supply elasticities determine the rates of land conversion in global policy models. However, they are only available for few countries in the world. Therefore, analysts seeking to improve the spatial resolution of their models are forced to impose regionally homogeneous parameters...

Achieving Sustainable Irrigation Water Withdrawals: Global Impacts on Food Production and Land Use

27 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Richard Lammers, Alexander A Prusevich, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Danielle Grogan, Steve Frolking

Unsustainable water use challenges the capacity of water resources to ensure food security and continued growth of the economy. Adaptation policies targeting future water security can easily overlook its interaction with other sustainability metrics and unanticipated local responses to the...

Analyzing Water Scarcity in Global CGE Models

08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Farzad Taheripour

Incorporating water into a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model operating at global scale can be extremely demanding due to the absence of standardized data, the sheer dimensions caused by intersecting river basins with countries, and difficulties to model demand for and supply of water....

International trade buffers the impact of future irrigation shortfalls

24 Jun 2016 | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Thomas W. Hertel, Farzad Taheripour, Tingju Zhu, Claudia Ringler

There is increasing interest in the water–food nexus, especially the restrictive effect of water on food production in hot spots where irrigation stress is growing. However, little is known about the larger- scale implications of future irrigation shortfalls for global trade and economic...

Future property damage from flooding: sensitivities to economy and climate change

24 Jun 2016 | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Thomas W. Herte, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Michael S Delgado, Moetasim Ashfaq

Recent trends in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events have raised the concern that climate change could increase flooding risks and property damage. However, a major challenge in attributing and projecting changes in disaster risk is that damage is influenced not only by the...