The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

ISBN-13: 9781138354784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str.

Arjen Y. Hoekstra

Opis

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

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.