The water footprint of modern consumer society /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoekstra, Arjen Y., 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Earthscan water text series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the first edition
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • The environmental footprint of the human species
  • A brief history of water footprint thinking
  • Why do we overexploit our limited freshwater resources?
  • Drinking ten bathtubs of water a day
  • Water for bread and pasta
  • Meat and dairy, the biggest water users
  • How our cotton clothes link to a disappearing sea
  • The energy transition : how to combine carbon and water footprint reduction?
  • The overseas water footprint of cut flowers
  • The supply-chain water footprint of paper
  • Sustainability: water footprint caps per water body
  • Efficiency: water footprint benchmarks per product
  • Equitability : fair water footprint shares per community
  • Allocating the world's limited Freshwater resources
  • Getting trade right
  • Product transparency
  • Who will be the heroes of change?