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Globalisation of Water: Opportunities and Threats of Virtual Water Trade: PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft book cover

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Globalisation of Water: Opportunities and Threats of Virtual Water Trade PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft

By Ashok Kumar Chapagain Copyright 2006
162 Pages 20 Color & 30 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

162 Pages
by CRC Press

162 Pages
by CRC Press
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The river basin is no longer the appropriate spatial unit for analysing water problems. With increasing trade between nations and continents, water is more and more often used to produce goods that are exported. This book analyses this issue for the first time on a global scale. It addresses questions such as: Is the import of water in virtual form – in the form of imported commodities – a... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Methodology  3. The Global Component of Freshwater Demand and Supply  4. Saving Water through Global Trade  5. Water Footprints of Nations: Water Use by People as a Function of their Consumption Pattern  6. Virtual Versus Real Water Transfers within China  7. The Water Footprint of Coffee and Tea Consumption  8. The Water Footprint of Cotton Consumption  9. Discussion

Biography

Ashok Chapagain was born in 1965 in Dingla, Nepal. He received his Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee in 1985, and his M.Sc. from the IHE in the Netherlands. With a background in hands-on, small-scale irrigation projects in Nepal, and academic research in the Netherlands, Ashok Chapagain here takes a step further into the global dimension of the virtual water trade.

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