Emerging interdisciplinary science efforts are providing new understanding of the interdependence
of food, energy, and water (FEW) systems. These science advances, in turn, provide …

… Such consistencies between perceptions and environment were previously suggested by
comparisons with modeled air temperature data (Ruddell et al. 2012), although we present the …

Ecohydrological systems may be characterized as nonlinear, complex, open dissipative
systems. Such systems consist of many coupled processes, and the couplings change …

Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change)
has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to …

… Benjamin Ruddell and Darren Ruddell contributed to the intellectual content of the paper.
Darren Ruddell also obtained and analyzed temperature data. All authors reviewed and …

A multi-method approach estimating summer waste heat emissions from anthropogenic
activities (Q F ) was applied for a major subtropical city (Phoenix, AZ). These included detailed, …

… ecosystems [Ruddell and Kumar, 2009a, 2009b] and the sensitivity and dynamics of
biosphere-atmosphere exchange to climate variability [Kumar and Ruddell, 2010; Ruddell et al., …

Cities are hotspots of commodity consumption, with implications for both local and systemic
water resources. Water flows “virtually” into and out of cities through the extensive cross-…

Food supply shocks are increasing worldwide 1 , 2 , particularly the type of shock wherein
food production or distribution loss in one location propagates through the food supply chain …

Research on urban ecosystems rapidly expanded in the 1990s and is now a central topic in
ecosystem science. In this paper, we argue that there are two critical challenges for …