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Globalisation of Water: Opportunities and Threats of Virtual Water Trade: PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft

Autor A.K. Chapagain
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2006
The river basin is no longer the appropriate spatial unit for analysing water problems. With increasing trade between nations and continents, water is more and more often used to produce goods that are exported. This book analyses this issue for the first time on a global scale. It addresses questions such as: Is the import of water in virtual form – in the form of imported commodities – a solution to water scarce countries? What threats are there in countries becoming ‘water dependent’? Can international trade be a tool to enhance global water use efficiency, or is it a means of shifting the environment burden to a distant location? The book shows the water footprint of nations, a consumer based indicator of water use which can be used as a tool to understand the impacts of local consumption on global water resources and the dependency of any country on external water resources.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415409162
ISBN-10: 0415409160
Pagini: 162
Ilustrații: 30 b/w images and 20 color images
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional

Cuprins

1. Introduction  2. Methodology  3. The Global Component of Freshwater Demand and Supply  4. Saving Water through Global Trade  5. Water Footprints of Nations: Water Use by People as a Function of their Consumption Pattern  6. Virtual Versus Real Water Transfers within China  7. The Water Footprint of Coffee and Tea Consumption  8. The Water Footprint of Cotton Consumption  9. Discussion

Descriere

With increasing trade between nations and continents, water is more and more often used to produce goods that are exported. Can international trade be a tool to enhance global water use efficiency, or is it a means of shifting the environment burden to a distant location? The water footprint of nations is a consumer-based indicator of water use which reveals the impacts of local consumption on global water resources and the dependency of any country on external water resources.