Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources by Hoekstra, Arjen Y.

Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405163354)

Vendor: Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$83.95
$83.95
$83.95
Subtotal: $83.95
Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources by Hoekstra, Arjen Y.

Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources

$83.95
Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources by Hoekstra, Arjen Y.

Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet's Freshwater Resources

$83.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x
Globalization of Water is a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management. It explores the impact of international trade on local water depletion and pollution and identifies "water dependent" nations.
  • 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


Author: Arjen Y. Hoekstra,Ashok K. Chapagain
ISBN-10: 1405163356
ISBN-13: 9781405163354
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2008
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.34w x 0.91d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2008 pg. 152
By Arjen Y. Hoekstra
By Arjen Y. Hoekstra
x
Arjen Y. Hoekstra has academic and professional experience in the field of integrated water resources management in various countries and is currently Professor of Multidisciplinary Water Management at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Ashok K. Chapagain has been an irrigation engineer in Nepal, received his PhD degree at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, the Netherlands, was employed as researcher at the University of Twente, and currently works for the World Wide Fund for Nature in the UK.

Recently Viewed Products