FEW-View™

Navigate the Food, Energy, and Water Supply Chains Across the United States

THE ASU ADVANTAGE

Do you know where your food, energy and watercome from? Would you guess that the trouton your plate in a New York City restaurant isalmost exclusively sourced from TransylvaniaCounty, North Carolina? FEW-View™, ASU’sDecision Theater’s interactive map of the Food,Energy and Water (FEW) supply system, offersa simple approach to understanding thesecomplex connections.

Mapping the Invisible

Food, Energy and Water (FEW) resources are transported across the U.S. to support regional population needs. FEW- View™ tracks, analyzes, and visualizes this otherwise invisible supply chain. The connections and interdependencies between communities are illustrated and create greater understanding of their complexities.

FEW-View™ is a research tool that maps and explores the complex ties of FEW systems. Decision Theater collaborated with FEWSION researchers to visualize commodity flows and integrate massive supply-chain datasets into one common framework. The tool provides unprecedented opportunities to explore the landscape of commodity exchange while gaining new insights into these intricate connections across the US.

FEW-View™ can provide unprecedented insights to:

• Emergency Managers for disaster planning

• Sustainability Officers reducing their community’s footprint

• K-12 Educators to acquaint students to regional connections of food, energy and water systems

• Researchers and the public to better understand their communities

Fueled by new findings, users can invest in the security, resilience, and sustainability of regional supply chains in their communities and across the nation.

FEW-View TM Findings, what regions supply New York City’s FEW resources?

New York City is the world’s original Megacity, with a current population around 20 million people. The city sources food,energy and water from around the nation and world. It takes a country, and a planet, to supply it.

How could an L.A. earthquake affect global FEW supplies?

The San Andreas fault is a serious threat to Los Angeles.If highways, railroads and the Port of Los Angeles are seriously damaged, it could take years to regain the city’s major transportation hub. How much of your community’s supply chain passes through Los Angeles?

FEW-View™ Exploration

Users explore pre-set scenarios built by FEWSION researchers or set their own research questions to discover new findings. The tool’s benchmarking features present side-by-side comparisons of state and county commodity flows. Users can explore resilience, dependence and circularity analytics and export charts, data and insights in a PDF format.

The core power of FEW-View™ rests in its backend computations. The tool processes millions of data points to display results in visual and consumable formats. FEW-View™ is a web app built using modern JavaScript and PHP frameworks. It is an initiative of the FEWSION™ project, a collaboration between scientists at over a dozen universities. FEWSION™ was founded in 2016 by a grant from the INFEWS basic research program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Follow the FEW exchange at fewsion.dtn.asu.edu