Powering Resilient Communities: A Holistic Approach to Food, Energy, and Water Security

Overview

What you'll learn

• Explore current states of food, energy, and water systems in rural Alaska, with broader applications to the Arctic.
• Compare mature and emerging renewable energy technologies such as hydro, photovoltaics, and geothermal energy, with examples from Alaska.
• Define how food, energy, and water impacts community well-being in the Arctic and beyond.
• Analyze the feedback between renewable energy power generation and the local drivers of food, energy, and water security.
• Explore and discuss scientific and social issues that arise when utilizing food, energy, and water resources.
• Organize and quantify food and water security data.
• Use renewable energy resource data to create energy assessments.
• Learn how modular food and water applications can optimize renewable energy inputs in the Arctic and beyond.
• Apply decision making methodologies to develop community level recommendations based on resource energy assessments combined with food and water security infor…

Syllabus 20

1. Introduction to Alaska
2. Introduction to the Food, Energy, Water (FEW) Nexus
3. Introduction to FEWtureville
4. Rural Electricity and Heating Systems
5. Rural Food Systems
6. Rural Water and Wastewater Systems
7. FEWtureville Case Study
8. Diesel Generators in Remote Communities
9. Renewable Energy Technologies
10. Energy Resource Data
11. FEWtureville Case Study
12. What is Food, Energy, Water (FEW) Security
13. Factors Affecting FEW Security
14. Assessing FEW Security
15. FEWtureville Case Study
16. Electrified Load Applications
17. Analysis Tools: NRMSE Method
18. Analysis Tools: FEW Indices
19. Putting It All Together
20. The Years to Come

Skills you'll practise

Renewable Energy SystemsSolar EnergyAlternative EnergyPhotovoltaicsWater ResourcesWater Supply NetworksSocial SciencesSewageSustainable DevelopmentBiomassHydropowerResilienceWastewaterInfrastructureWind TurbinesCommunity PlanningClimate Variability And ChangeElectricityResearchRenewable EnergyGreenhouse Gas

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Before you start

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Taught by

• Bill SchnabelDean
• Daisy HuangAssociate Professor
• Erin WhitneyResearch Faculty
• Srijan AggarwalAssociate Professor of Environmental Engineering
• Jennifer SchmidtAssistant Professor of Natural Resources Management and Policy
• Chris PikeResearch Engineer
• Michelle WilberResearch Engineer
• Henry HuntingtonIndependent Consultant