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Given the many pressures on food, energy, and water (FEW) systems, it is essential that strategies for development and sustainability recognize the inter-dependencies among them. Interactions between FEW sectors and secondary effects of some decisions complicates planning on local and regional scales. Quantitative support to inform decision making is invaluable to provide supporting knowledge/information to expose benefits and costs of infrastructure development and policy implementation for Arizona's FEW systems.
To that end, ARizona Value INtegrated Food-Energy-Water Model (ARVIN- FEW), an economic-engineering system dynamics and optimization models, are under development. ARVIN-FEW produces objective measures of planning success include sustainability metrics and economic efficiency.