Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6335-4

Hardcover

220 pages

January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell

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Examines the critical link between water management and international trade, considering how local water depletion and pollution are often closely tied to the structure of the global economy
Offers a consumer-based indicator of each nation’s water use: the water footprint
Questions whether trade can enhance global water use efficiency, or whether it simply shifts the environmental burden to a distant location
Highlights the hidden link between national consumption and the use of water resources across the globe, identifying the threats facing ‘water dependent’ countries worldwide
Provides a state-of-the-art review and in-depth data source for a new field of knowledge