Overview
- Combines virtual water and water footprints in a multidisciplinary approach
- Includes tips on how to make food production more sustainable in terms of water resources
- Analyzes the new ISO for water footprints and its relevance in the context of policymaking
- Presents case studies on specific food products, regions (the EU) and countries (Italy)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Water (SPWA)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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To Begin: Virtual Water and the Water Footprint
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Virtual Water, Humans and the Environment
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The Italian Case
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Water in Food
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About this book
This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security. It demonstrates that most of the world’s economies lack sufficient water resources to secure their populations’ food requirements and are thus virtual importers of water. One of the most inspiring cases, which this book is rooted in, is Italy: the third largest net virtual water importer on earth. The book also shows that the sustainability of water depends on the extent to which societies recognize and take into account its value and contribution to agricultural production. Due to the large volumes of water required for food production, water and food security are in fact inextricably linked. Contributions from leading international experts and scholars in the field use the concepts of virtual water and water footprints to explain this relationship, with an eye to the empirical examples of wine, tomato and pasta production in Italy. This book provides a valuable resource for all researchers, professionals, policymakers and everyone else interested in water and food security.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Water We Eat
Book Subtitle: Combining Virtual Water and Water Footprints
Editors: Marta Antonelli, Francesca Greco
Series Title: Springer Water
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16393-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16392-5Published: 21 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38666-9Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16393-2Published: 11 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-6934
Series E-ISSN: 2364-8198
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 256
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Popular Science in Nature and Environment