Water Footprint Expands with Gross Domestic Product
The exponential increase of water demand has already been addressed since 1970s in the well-known report on the “Limits to growth”. Today, freshwater availability is considered one of the nine planetary boundaries, along with biosphere integrity, climate change and ocean acidification among others....
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ftjrc:oai:publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu:JRC118915 2023-05-15T17:50:41+02:00 Water Footprint Expands with Gross Domestic Product HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ Yeray NAUMANN Gustavo CORRAL Serafin MARINHO FERREIRA BARBOSA Paulo 2020 Online https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC118915 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/20/8741 https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208741 ENG eng MDPI JRC118915 2020 ftjrc https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208741 2022-05-01T08:21:16Z The exponential increase of water demand has already been addressed since 1970s in the well-known report on the “Limits to growth”. Today, freshwater availability is considered one of the nine planetary boundaries, along with biosphere integrity, climate change and ocean acidification among others. It is essential, not only to sustain life on earth, but also for the provision of energy and food, in a context where 4 billion people are currently facing severe water stress during, at least, one month a year. A guaranteed supply could be undermined due to the increasing population, shifting lifestyles towards more intensive water use and climate change. JRC.E.1 - Disaster Risk Management Other/Unknown Material Ocean acidification Joint Research Centre, European Commission: JRC Publications Repository Sustainability 12 20 8741 |
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The exponential increase of water demand has already been addressed since 1970s in the well-known report on the “Limits to growth”. Today, freshwater availability is considered one of the nine planetary boundaries, along with biosphere integrity, climate change and ocean acidification among others. It is essential, not only to sustain life on earth, but also for the provision of energy and food, in a context where 4 billion people are currently facing severe water stress during, at least, one month a year. A guaranteed supply could be undermined due to the increasing population, shifting lifestyles towards more intensive water use and climate change. JRC.E.1 - Disaster Risk Management |
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HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ Yeray NAUMANN Gustavo CORRAL Serafin MARINHO FERREIRA BARBOSA Paulo |
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HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ Yeray NAUMANN Gustavo CORRAL Serafin MARINHO FERREIRA BARBOSA Paulo |
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Water Footprint Expands with Gross Domestic Product |
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Water Footprint Expands with Gross Domestic Product |
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Water Footprint Expands with Gross Domestic Product |
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