Arjen Y. Hoekstra

The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels. .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429755347
• Artikelnr.: 57070180

Autorenporträt

Arjen Y. Hoekstra is Professor in Water Management at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, and co-founder of the Water Footprint Network. As creator of the water footprint concept, he introduced supply-chain thinking in water management and was the first to point at the global dimension of wise water governance.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The environmental footprint of the human species 2. A brief history of
water footprint thinking 3. Why do we overexploit our limited freshwater
resources? 4. Drinking ten bathtubs of water a day 5. Water for bread and
pasta 6. Meat and dairy, the biggest water users 7. How our cotton clothes
link to a disappearing sea 8. The energy transition: how to combine carbon
and water footprint reduction? 9. The overseas water footprint of cut
flowers 10. The supply-chain water footprint of paper 11. Sustainability:
water footprint caps per water body 12. Efficiency: water footprint
benchmarks per product 13. Equitability: fair water footprint shares per
community 14. Allocating the world's limited freshwater resources 15.
Getting trade right 16. Product transparency 17. Who will be the heroes of
change?