| ANEMI | An ancient Greek term for the four winds, heralds of the four seasons. |
| CLEW | Climate, Land, Energy and Water. |
| CRISPR/Cas9 | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. |
| CSV format | Comma-Separated Values format. |
| DCL | Dear College Letter. |
| EU | European Union. |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. |
| i-RTG | Integrated Rooftop Greenhouse. |
| IF | Impact Factor. |
| INFEWS | Innovations in Food, Energy and Water Systems. |
| KTH | Royal Institute of Technology: Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (Swedish). |
| LAC | Latin America and Caribbean. |
| MuSIASEM | Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism. |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration. |
| NSF | National Science Foundation. |
| PRIMA | Association for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area. |
| PUBYEAR | Publication year. |
| PV panels | Photovoltaic panels. |
| Q1 | Quartile 1. |
| REDD+ programme | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation programme. |
| RIS format | Research Information Systems format. |
| SJR | SCIMago Journal Rank. |
| SciMAT | Soft Computing and Intelligent Information Systems Research group. |
| SDGs | Sustainable Development Goals. |
| Texas A&M University | Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University. |
| UK | United Kingdom. |
| UM | Urban Metabolism. |
| UN | United Nations. |
| USA | United States of America. |
| UNSD | United Nations Statistics Division. |
| WEF Nexus | Water–Energy–Food Nexus. |
| WEFE | Water-–Energy–Food–Ecosystems. |
| WESim | The Water-Energy Simulator. |