TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoekstra,Arjen Y.
AU  - Chapagain,Ashok K.
TI  - Globalization of water: sharing the planet's freshwater resources 
SN  - 9780470696224
AV  - TD345 .H54 2008eb
U1  - 333.91 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Water-supply
KW  - Management
KW  - Water resources development
KW  - Freshwater ecology
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Real Estate
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Wasserhaushalt
KW  - swd
KW  - Globalisierung
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index; Introduction -- How much water is used for producing our goods and services? -- Virtual-water flows between nations as a result of trade in agricultural and industrial products -- Water saving through international trade in agricultural products -- The water footprints of nations -- The water footprints of Morocco and the Netherlands -- Virtual- versus real-water transfers within China -- Assessing virtual-water flows between regions in China -- The water footprint of coffee and tea consumption -- The water footprint of cotton consumption -- Water as a geopolitical resource -- Efficient, sustainable, and equitable water use in a globalized world -- Appendices: I. Analytical framework for the assessment of virtual-water content, virtual-water flows, water savings, water footprints, and water dependencies -- II. Virtual-water flows per country related to international trade in crop, livestock, and industrial products -- III. National water savings and losses due to trade in agricultural products -- IV. Water footprints of nations -- Water footprint versus water scarcity, self-sufficiency, and water import dependency per country; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470696224
ER  -