iSEE Congress: Session 3 — Coupled Natural & Human Systems for Sustainable Food, Water, Energy

Session 3 presentations:

– "Implications of Postharvest Food Loss/Waste Prevention to Energy and Resources Conservation" by Ximing Cai, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2:05–23:33)

– Frontiers of the Food-Water-Energy Trilemma: Sri Lanka as a Microcosm of Tradeoffs" by George Hornberger, Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University. (25:45–45:05)

– "Are We Sustaining the Information Needed to Manage Global Food-Energy-Water Systems?" by Patrick Reed, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University.(46:36–1:06:26)

Q&A w/ the speakers (1:06:33–1:26:58)

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Each fall, iSEE hosts an international Congress, assembling leading scientists from a wide range of disciplines to present the latest scientific research on grand world challenges of sustainability, energy, generation and conservation, and the environment.

iSEE Congress 2015 “Water Planet, Water Crises? Meeting the World’s Water-Food-Energy Needs Sustainably” brought together 350 researchers, students, and community members to examine the interconnectedness of water resources, food production, and energy generation.