Water Footprints and Sustainable Development

Klappentext

Water Footprints and Sustainable Development serves as the sole comprehensive volume of the role of waste management for sustainable development. It provides an overview of Global Scenario of water footprints in water smart cities and technologies and investigates the critical factors that enable the sustainable developments of various industries in respect to water resources management. The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the current technologies used for reducing water footprints, and to offer the necessary information and tools for sustainable development.

Inhalt

1. Increasing water footprints: the NextGen Sustainability Challenge
   
   2. Assessment of water footprints in different sectors
   3. Comparative water footprint analysis of rural and urban areas
   4. Drivers of the Growing Water footprint: A global scenario
   5. Global Scenario of Water footprints in water smart cities
   6. Water footprints towards global environmental sustainability
   7. Industrial water conservation by water footprint and sustainable development goals
   8. Sustainable Water Allocation and Water Footprints
   9. Equitable water uses and environmental sustainability
   10. Agriculture, Water footprints and virtual water trade nexus
   11. Water footprint and power generation
   12. Potentials and limitations of water footprints for gauging environmental sustainability
   13. Strategies for the reduction of water footprints