Lightning Talks Topic C (LTC)
08.10.2026 11:30 – 13:00
Margarete-Bieber-Saal (MBS)
Moderator: Lars Ribbe & Mukand Babel
Description
Decoding Resource Interdependencies: From Data to Robust Decisions in the WEFE Nexus
Understanding and managing the complex interdependencies between water, energy, food, land, and ecosystems (the WEFE Nexus) is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As climate extremes intensify and human demands grow, how can we leverage cutting-edge data and modeling to move from observation to evidence-based action?
This session explores the quantitative and analytical tools necessary to decode these interconnected resource systems. We invite participants on a global journey—spanning the Atlantic Forest, the Andes, the Himalayas, and the Middle East—to demonstrate how robust quantification supports strategic planning under deep uncertainty.
Presenters
| Block | ID | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 49 | Santiago Penedo | Monitoring and Modelling the Impacts of Different Land Uses on Fluvial Water Quality Focusing on Nitrogen in the Mata Atlântica: The Guapi-Macacu River Basin |
| 391 | Maria de Lourdes Florencio dos Santos | Hydroclimatic Drivers of Agricultural Water Demand in a Brazilian Semiarid Region: Insights from Water Footprint Assessment | |
| 290 | Adriana Priscila Sumba Naula | Water Consumption Patterns and Their Drivers Across the Urban–Rural Continuum in the Ecuadorian Andes: A Machine Learning Approach | |
| 429 | Archana Sathyan | Linking Surface Energy fluxes to Flash Drought and Terrestrial Water Storage Dynamics in the Humid Tropics | |
| 2 | 139 | Qais Daraghma | Quantifying Groundwater-Vegetation Interdependencies under Drought Stress: An Integrated VHI-SWAT-SPI Approach in the Faria Catchment, Palestine |
| 169 | Diwakar Adhikari | Hydroclimatic Changes in the Marsyangdi River Basin, Central Himalaya under CMIP6 Scenarios: Implications for the Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystem Nexus | |
| 336 | Arash Malekian | Quantifying Water–Land–Climate Interdependencies to Anticipate Policy Rebound: Coupled Scenario Modelling for Water Security in a Water Stressed Basin | |
| 461 | Ella Steins | Robust decision-making for emergency water supply planning under parametric, structural, and deep uncertainty |