Virtual Water (eBook, ePUB)

Implications for Agriculture and Trade
Redaktion: Ray, Chittaranjan; Sanderson, Matthew; McInnes, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Virtual Water explores the role of "virtual water" - the water embedded in a product - in ongoing conversations of agriculture, trade and sustainability in an increasingly inter-connected world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000732160
• Artikelnr.: 59574813

Autorenporträt

Chittaranjan Ray serves as the Director of Nebraska Water Center at Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA, and is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. Besides his leadership role in water at the university, his research focuses on water quality impacts from agriculture. David McInnes is Principal of DMci Strategies, where he is a Strategic Advisor, Speaker and Facilitator on change and opportunity facing the global food system. He is also a Senior Fellow at Canada 2020, an independent, progressive think-tank, where he leads the Canada Food Brand project. Dr McInnes is also a Contributing Editor of The Economist Intelligence Unit, and an Advisor to the Delegation of Canada for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture. Matthew R. Sanderson is the Randall C. Hill Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA. His research focuses on the demographic and environmental aspects of development in global political-economic context.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Virtual water: its implications on agriculture and trade
Chittaranjan Ray, David McInnes and Matthew Sanderson 1. The water
footprint of the EU: quantification, sustainability and relevance Davy
Vanham 2. The exposure of a fresh fruit and vegetable supply chain to
global water-related risks Tim Hess and Chloe Sutcliffe 3. Advising
Morocco: adopting recommendations of a water footprint assessment would
increase risk and impair food security for the country and its farmers
Dennis Wichelns 4. Future crop yields and water productivity changes for
Nebraska rainfed and irrigated crops Yaqiong Lu, Xianyu Yang and Lara
Kueppers 5. Can Sub-Saharan Africa feed itself? The role of irrigation
development in the region's drylands for food security Hua Xie, Nicostrato
Perez, Weston Anderson, Claudia Ringler and Liangzhi You 6. Sustainability
of aquifers supporting irrigated agriculture: a case study of the High
Plains aquifer in Kansas James J. Butler, Donald O. Whittemore, B. Brownie
Wilson and Geoffrey C. Bohling 7. Irrigation variability and climate change
affect derived distributions of simulated water recharge and nitrate
leaching Timothy R. Green and Saseendran S. Anapalli 8. The water footprint
challenge for water resources management in Chilean arid zones Pablo
Álvarez 9. The effect of diet changes and food loss reduction in reducing
the water footprint of an average American Mesfin M. Mekonnen and Julian
Fulton 10. Water footprint for Korean rice products and virtual water trade
in a water-energy-food nexus Sang-Hyun Lee, Jin-Yong Choi, Seung-Hwan Yoo
and Rabi H. Mohtar 11. Water footprint of beef production on Texas High
Plains pasture Charles P. West and Lisa L. Baxter 12. Tradeoffs in the
water-energy- food nexus in the urbanizing Asia-Pacific region Makoto
Taniguchi, Naoki Masuhara and Shun Teramoto