Progress in Water Footprint Assessment

• Yazar: Van Oel, Pieter (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Chapagain, Ashok K. (auth), Hoekstra, Arjen Y. (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Konular: History of engineering & technology; effective rain; cabbage; urban area; water footprint benchmarks; value addition; threshold; Haihe River Basin; land footprint; irrigation intensity; environmental sustainability; water resources; virtual water trade; land use change; blue water footprint; embedded resource accounting; multi-level governance; soil type; cattle; crop water demand; lettuce; modelling; sustainability; water scarcity footprint; water scarcity; green water availability; root water uptake; water footprint; water productivity; South Africa; economic land productivity; crop trade; Amazon; Cerrado; wheat-bread; international trade; life cycle analysis; broccoli; value chain; oil palm (Eleasis guineensis); crop choice; water accounting; retail; Malawi; river basin management; Steenkoppies Aquifer; carrots; consumers; wheat; silk; soybean; water footprint assessment; CSR; sericulture; food self-sufficiency; water management; water footprint accounting; packhouse; economic water productivities; groundwater; consumption; Central Europe; maize; beetroot; economic water productivity; Mato Grosso; regulation; food security; water saving; crop ages
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Water Footprint Assessment is a young research field that considers how freshwater use, scarcity, and pollution relate to consumption, production, and trade patterns. This book presents a wide range of studies within this new field. It is argued that collective and coordinated action - at different...