The Food-Water-Energy Nexus and Household Behavior: An Oregon Case Study
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Abstract
The food-water-energy (FWE) nexus is by definition a ‘wicked problem’ in that potential solutions in one sector may inadvertently create perverse effects in another such as a reduction of available water for energy or food production. Extant and projected demand for FWE creates an intertwined problem of supply and demand and new policy considerations for managing the nexus. This study examines the FWE behaviors of Oregon households using survey data gathered in 2017. Findings suggest that a majority of all sampled households have engaged in sustainable food, energy and water behaviors in the last five years, with rural households less likely to participate in such activities when compared to urban households. Education, environmental values—as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm—and environmental efficacy were also found to be significant predictors of both individual FWE behaviors as well as behaviors in the FWE nexus. The study concludes with some policy recommendations for encouraging sustainable public FWE nexus behaviors. Keywords: FWE Nexus; rural-urban residency; new ecological paradigm; environmental efficacy; sustainable household behavior ________________________________ Le rapport nourriture-eau-energie et le comportement des menages: une etude de cas de l'Oregon Resume Le rapport nourriture-eau-energie (NEE) est par definition un « probleme epineux » dans la mesure ou les solutions potentielles dans un secteur peuvent creer par inadvertance des effets pervers dans un autre, comme une reduction de l’eau disponible pour la production d’energie ou d’aliments. La demande existante et anticipee de NEE cree un probleme imbrique d’offre et de demande et de nouvelles considerations politiques pour la gestion du lien. Cette etude examine les comportements NEE des menages de l'Oregon a l'aide des donnees d'enquete recueillies en 2017. Les resultats suggerent que la majorite des menages echantillonnes ont adopte des comportements durables en matiere d'alimentation, d'energie et d'eau au cours des cinq dernieres annees, les menages ruraux etant moins susceptibles de participer a de telles activites que les menages urbains. L’education, les valeurs environnementales - telles que mesurees par le Nouveau paradigme ecologique - et l’efficacite environnementale se sont egalement revelees etre des predicteurs significatifs des comportements individuels des NEE ainsi que des comportements du rapport des NEE. L'etude se termine par certaines recommandations politiques visant a encourager des comportements publics durables du rapport NEE. Mots-cles : Reseau NEE; residence en zone rurale / urbaine; nouveau paradigme ecologique; efficacite environnementale; comportement durable des menages
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".