Failures to Food, Energy, and Water Systems: Mapping and Simulating Components to Improve Resilience

Abstract

This paper identifies common varieties of threats and perturbations in contemporary food, energy, and water (FEW) systems in order to improve system resilience. We categorize perturbations and challenges faced by subsystems and then concentrate on the structural topology of the project's components. We provide a graph model to represent this topology as an essential tool to improve system resilience. The model is then converted to a system dynamic model for further simulation.