Table 1 Review of some of the key national-level WFE Nexus conceptual frameworks.

From: The effect of reducing per capita water and energy uses on renewable water resources in the water, food and energy nexus

Analytical frameworks

Developer

Advantages over the model of this research

Weaknesses compared to the model of this research

References

WFE Nexus Rapid Appraisal Tool

FAO

Capacity to quickly assess the WFE Nexus status with a limited number of indicators; Consideration of climate change

not being able to build scenarios

Flammini et al.45

MuSIASEM (Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism)

Giampietro et al.

considering economic and social issues.

Model complexity and lack of user-friendly graphical interface

Giampietro et al.46

World Bank Climate and Disaster Risk Screening Tools

World Bank

Considering climate trends and geophysical hazards

Having Diagnostic properties and not being able to build scenarios

Dargin et al.17

WEF Nexus Tool 2.0

Daher and Mohtar

Considering carbon emissions

Ignoring temporal WFE nexus feedbacks; Ignoring aquatic environmental impact

Mohtar and Daher47; Daher and Mohtar48

National Outlook Model for Australia

CSIRO

Consideration of socio-economic issues, climate change and land use change

Geographically limited to Australia; imposing significant computational and input data requirements

Hatfield-Dodds et al.49

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