Water Footprint And Virtual Water Trade In Spain

Author : Alberto Garrido,M. Ramón Llamas,Consuelo Varela-Ortega,Paula Novo,Roberto Rodríguez-Casado,Maite M. Aldaya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441957412

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Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain by Alberto Garrido,M. Ramón Llamas,Consuelo Varela-Ortega,Paula Novo,Roberto Rodríguez-Casado,Maite M. Aldaya Pdf

1.1 General Framework In most arid and semi-arid countries, water resource management is an issue that is both important and controversial. Most water resources experts now acknowledge that water conflicts are not caused by physical scarcity but are mainly due to poor water management (Rosegrant et al. 2002; Benoit and Comeau 2005; Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture 2007; Garrido and Dinar 2010, among others). The scientific and technological advances of the past 50 years have led to new ways to solve many water-related conflicts, often with tools that seemed unthinkable a few decades ago (Llamas 2005; Lopez-Gunn and Llamas 2008). This study deals with the estimation and analysis of Spain’s water footprint, both from a hydrological and economic perspective. Its ultimate objective is to report on the allocative efficiency of water and economic resources. This analysis can provide a transparent and multidisciplinary framework for informing and optimising water policy decisions, contributing at the same time to the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) (2000/60/EC). It also responds to the current mandate of the Spanish Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, which recently issued instructions for drafting river basin management plans in compliance with the EU Water Framework Directive, with a deadline of end of year 2009 and then every 6 years (BOE 2008).

Author : Alberto Garrido,M. Ram Llamas,Consuelo Varela-Ortega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1441957421

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Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain by Alberto Garrido,M. Ram Llamas,Consuelo Varela-Ortega Pdf

Author : Lucia De Stefano,M. Ramon Llamas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203096123

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Water, Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle? by Lucia De Stefano,M. Ramon Llamas Pdf

"The world water problems are a due to bad governance, not to physical water scarcity." This book is inspired by this statement and explores whether it holds in a specific country, Spain, where climatic conditions – Spain is one of the most arid countries of the European Union - would fully justify saying that water problems are due to physical water scarcity. The metrification of water uses and their monetary value is a first important step in understanding how reallocation of water among users could help mitigating many of current water problems in Spain. However, water reallocation among users or from users to nature is far from simple. Initiatives portrayed as the solution to the water governance ‘jigsaw’ – e.g. water trade, improved water use efficiency, users collective action, public participation – are not free of difficulties and shortcomings. The book explores the growing need for maintaining Spain’s natural capital and the human component of water governance – people’s needs, wishes, (vested) interests, aspirations – that often determine the result of decisions and, sometimes, lead water management to a deadlock. This book takes a step forward in showing a more complex - and also closer to reality - picture of water governance in Spain.

Author : Maite M. Aldaya,Ashok K. Chapagain,Arjen Y. Hoekstra,Mesfin M. Mekonnen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136538520

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The Water Footprint Assessment Manual by Maite M. Aldaya,Ashok K. Chapagain,Arjen Y. Hoekstra,Mesfin M. Mekonnen Pdf

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The water footprint is an indicator of water use that looks at both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer. Indirect use refers to the 'virtual water' embedded in tradable goods and commodities, such as cereals, sugar or cotton. The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business. This book offers a complete and up-to-date overview of the global standard on water footprint assessment as developed by the Water Footprint Network. More specifically it: o Provides a comprehensive set of methods for water footprint assessment o Shows how water footprints can be calculated for individual processes and products, as well as for consumers, nations and businesses o Contains detailed worked examples of how to calculate green, blue and grey water footprints o Describes how to assess the sustainability of the aggregated water footprint within a river basin or the water footprint of a specific product o Includes an extensive library of possible measures that can contribute to water footprint reduction

Author : Schaldach, Ruth
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783737607780

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Depletive Virtual Water Trade Embedded in the Water-Energy-Soil-Trade-Discourse Nexus by Schaldach, Ruth Pdf

Virtual water trade increased with globalisation. However, this trade does not always flow in such direction, that water abundant regions supply water scarce regions with water intense products. Often the opposite happens and depletive water trade intensifies causing water scarcity. This work focuses on the Water-Energy-Soil-Trade-Nexus with each element seen as a materialisation of discourses. Two cases illustrate specific parts of the Nexus, firstly, the close relationship of market liberalisation, foreign direct investment and virtual water trade is represented with Viet Nam’s Doi Moi policy and rapid economic growth. Secondly, the water-energy dimension linkages are drawn by following the case of hydraulic fracturing from the U.S. to Australia’s gas drills embedded in a global perspective. This work helps to understand especially cases, where virtual water trade dries out water resources in already vulnerable areas.

Author : A. K. Chapagain
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138424005

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Globalisation of Water by A. K. Chapagain Pdf

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.

Author : Luis Martinez-Cortina,Alberto Garrido,Elena Lopez-Gunn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203829820

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Re-thinking Water and Food Security by Luis Martinez-Cortina,Alberto Garrido,Elena Lopez-Gunn Pdf

This book provides an overview, by leading world experts, on key issues in global water and food security. The book is divided in a series of over-arching themes and sections. The first part of the book provides an overview of water and food security. The second and third sections look at global trade and virtual water trade, and provide some

Author : Anik Bhaduri,Janos Bogardi,Jan Leentvaar,Sina Marx
Publisher : Springer
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319075488

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The Global Water System in the Anthropocene by Anik Bhaduri,Janos Bogardi,Jan Leentvaar,Sina Marx Pdf

The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, relates institutional and technological innovations and identifies in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management. Until the industrial revolution, human beings and their activities played an insignificant role influencing the dynamics of the Earth system, the sum of our planet‘s interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. Today, humankind even exceeds nature in terms of changing the biosphere and affecting all other facets of Earth system functioning. A growing number of scientists argue that humanity has entered a new geological epoch that needs a corresponding name: the Anthropocene. Human activities impact the global water system as part of the Earth system and change the way water moves around the globe like never before. Thus, managing freshwater use wisely in the planetary water cycle has become a key challenge to reach global environmental sustainability.

Author : Pedro Martinez-Santos,Maite M. Aldaya,M. Ramón Llamas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315794099

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Integrated Water Resources Management in the 21st Century: Revisiting the paradigm by Pedro Martinez-Santos,Maite M. Aldaya,M. Ramón Llamas Pdf

Integrated water resources management advocates a coordinated approach for managing water resources in a way that balances social and economic needs with concern for the environment. While potentially useful, integrated water management is also controversial. Supporters believe that the multi-dimensional nature of water can only be understood and m

Author : Alberto Garrido,M. Ramon Llamas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203866023

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Water Policy in Spain by Alberto Garrido,M. Ramon Llamas Pdf

Though the modern Spanish State was formed in the mid Fifteenth Century, historical records show that water works, statues, and the utilization of water dates back to centuries BC. As a semi-arid country, the effort to control, store and assure water supplies to cities and fields is present in numerous historical and political landmarks.Water polic

Author : Brahma Chellaney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442249288

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Water, Peace, and War by Brahma Chellaney Pdf

Now in an updated edition, this pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, geostrategist Brahma Chellaney argues that it remains the world’s most underappreciated and undervalued resource. One sobering fact is that the retail price of bottled water is already higher than the international spot price of crude oil. But unlike oil, water has no substitute, raising the specter of water becoming the next flashpoint for conflict. Water war as a concept may not mesh with the conventional construct of warfare, especially for those who plan with tanks, combat planes, and attack submarines as weapons. Yet armies don’t necessarily have to march to battle to seize or defend water resources. Water wars—in a political, diplomatic, or economic sense—are already being waged between riparian neighbors in many parts of the world, fueling cycles of bitter recrimination, exacerbating water challenges, and fostering mistrust that impedes broader regional cooperation and integration. The danger is that these water wars could escalate to armed conflict or further limit already stretched food and energy production. Writing in a direct, nontechnical, and engaging style, Brahma Chellaney draws on a wide range of research from scientific and policy fields to examine the different global linkages between water and peace. Offering a holistic picture and integrated solutions, his book has become the recognized authority on the most precious natural resource of this century and how we can secure humankind’s water future.

Author : David Tickner,Ashok Kumar Chapagain
Publisher : Do Sustainability
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781910174579

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Water Footprint Assessment by David Tickner,Ashok Kumar Chapagain Pdf

As business risks associated with water intensify -- for example risks to operations, supply chains and reputation -- many corporate sustainability professionals are seeking practical tools to help them understand and assess these risks. Water Footprint Assessment tools developed primarily by the research sector are gaining attention in this context. However, there is debate among experts and non-experts about the merits of this approach. Water Footprint Assessment: A Business Guide is a concise and comprehensive digest of emerging concepts, tools and arguments around water footprint approaches. Specifically aimed at business audiences, this definitive short guide to the issues distils the latest in scientific and policy literature, helps sustainability leaders understand what they can, and can’t, do with water footprint tools, includes practical experience and case studies and outlines the pros and cons of using Water Footprint Assessment and similar approaches.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Grain
ISBN : 9789290905547

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Does International Cereal Trade Save Water? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maksud Bekchanov,Aditya Sood,Marc Jeuland
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789290908265

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Review of Hydro-economic Models to Address River Basin Management Problems: Structure, Applications and Research Gaps by Maksud Bekchanov,Aditya Sood,Marc Jeuland Pdf

Author : Rafael Ziegler,David Groenfeldt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315469683

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Global Water Ethics by Rafael Ziegler,David Groenfeldt Pdf

Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable and socially just. This book assesses the implications of ongoing research in framing a new discipline of water ethics in practice. Contributions consider the difficult ethical and epistemological questions of water ethics in a global context, as well as offering local, empirical perspectives. Case study chapters focus on a range of countries including Canada, China, Germany, India, South Africa and the USA. The respective insights are brought together in the final section concerning the practical project of a universal water ethics charter, alongside theoretical questions about the legitimacy of a global water ethics. Overall the book provides a stimulating examination of water ethics in theory and practice, relevant to academics and professionals in the fields of water resource management and governance, environmental ethics, geography, law and political science.