“Socio-ecological systems are vital for integrated urban and rural environments. Causal loop diagrams (CLDs) help identify system connections and future planning and policy interventions. This article applies graph theory to the assessment of a CLD of the Food – Energy – Water nexus in integrated urban – rural regions, drawn within a participatory modeling effort with domain experts. We applied well-known measures and developed a new method that considers the loop-based structure of the system.”

Find the paper and full list of authors in Environmental Science and Policy.