Developing CLEWs Modelling Tools to Support Sustainable Development (3)

The Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems (CLEWs) model allows for representation of the Nexus interactions between different sectors. Applied in Sustainable Development contexts, the CLEWs model enhances policy coherence and supports effective decision making.
Over the last few years partners at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Loughbrorough University (United Kingdom) have worked together with the Simon Fraser University School of Sustainable Energy Engineering to build tools for applying and using CLEWs models in sustainable development. This project will enhance and build on the existing tools to make them more robust, enhance the ability of the CLEWs models to represent more aspects of the Nexus, and streamline CLEWs analyses. The specific goal of the project include enhancing existing open source modelling tools to represent a wider variety of Nexus challenges. With these enhanced tools, the students that are part of this project will apply the enhanced CLEWs model to the analysis of land use and water use implications.

Faculty Supervisor:

Taco Niet

Student:

Partner:

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Green/Alternative Energy; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Simon Fraser University

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