The water footprint of modern consumer society /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| 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?