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Heju Huai, Qian Zhang, Zuolin Li, Lina Liang and Xiumei Tang
To reduce crop-related water consumption and enhance agricultural water resource efficiency in the Beijing?Tianjin?Hebei region, this study employed the AquaCrop model to simulate crop yield and irrigation water requirements and calculated the water scar...
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Xueqing Zhao, Jin Shi, Meixia Liu, Saud Uz Zafar, Qin Liu, Ishaq A. Mian, Bushra Khan, Shadman Khan, Yan Zhuang, Wenyi Dong and Enke Liu
Using the water footprint (WF) approach to evaluate the water-use efficiency in agricultural production is crucial for assessing the sustainable use of water resources and mitigating water scarcity and pollution. This study calculated the blue, grey, gre...
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Teodora Maria Rusu, Tania Mihaiescu, Antonia Odagiu and Laura Paulette
Water footprint assessment is an analytical tool that helps us understand how activities, actions, and products from human activity influence the scarcity and pollution of water resources. The objectives of the paper are to study the water footprint that...
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Muhammad Muzammil, Azlan Zahid and Lutz Breuer
Agriculture of Pakistan relies on the Indus basin, which is facing severe water scarcity conditions. Poor irrigation practices and lack of policy reforms are major threats for water and food security of the country. In this research, alternative water-sa...
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Jong Seok Lee, Min Hyeok Lee, Yoon-Young Chun and Kun Mo Lee
The purpose of this paper is to compare the degree of uncertainty of the water scarcity footprint using the Monte Carlo statistical method and block bootstrap method. Using the hydrological data of a water drainage basin in Korea, characterization factor...
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Andi Mehmeti, Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis, George Arampatzis, Stephen J. McPhail and Sergio Ulgiati
A common sustainability issue, arising in production systems, is the efficient use of resources for providing goods or services. With the increased interest in a hydrogen (H2) economy, the life-cycle environmental performance of H2 ...
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Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Ashok K. Chapagain and Pieter R. Van Oel
This special issue is a collection of recent papers in the field of Water Footprint Assessment (WFA), an emerging area of research focused on the analysis of freshwater use, scarcity, and pollution in relation to consumption, production, and trade. As in...
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Fatemeh Karandish and Arjen. Y. Hoekstra
Iran?s focus on food self-sufficiency has led to an emphasis on increasing water volumes available for irrigation with little attention to water use efficiency, and no attention at all to the role of consumption and trade. To better understand the develo...
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Vishakha Nandanpawar
Pág. 257 - 265
In view of current economic and industrial growth, the whole world is facing various Sustainability challenges like Climate change and Global warming, energy management, food security, poverty, water scarcity and many more. To address these issues proper...
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Vicente De Paulo R. Da Silva, Sonaly D. De Oliveira, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, José Dantas Neto, João Hugo B. C. Campos, Célia C. Braga, Lincoln Eloi De Araújo, Danilo De Oliveira Aleixo, José Ivaldo B. De Brito, Márcio Dionísio De Souza and Romildo M. De Holanda
Freshwater scarcity has increased at an alarming rate worldwide; improved water management plays a vital role in increasing food production and security. This study aims to determine the water footprint of Brazil?s national food consumption, the virtual ...
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