Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain : Policy Implications

by Alberto Garrido, M. Ramón Llamas, Consuelo Varela-Ortega, Paula Novo, Roberto Rodríguez-Casado, Maite M. Aldaya

The evaluation of the water footprint and virtual water trade has become a promising means to evaluate the sustainability of a country's water resources. This book is based on the research and results of a thorough study carried out for Spain, which serves as a leading case for a semi-arid country. The objective of this study was to assess and analyze Spain's virtual water use and water footprint, differentiating the green and blue (surface and groundwater) components, both from a hydrological and economic perspective. This contributes to the water footprint and virtual water literature in sev

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Garrido, Alberto
Other Persons:	Aldaya, Maite M. (contributor) ; Llamas, M. Ramón (contributor) ; Novo, Paula (contributor) ; Rodríguez-Casado, Roberto (contributor) ; Varela-Ortega, Consuelo (contributor)
Publisher:	New York, NY : La Fundación Marcelino Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y López
Subject:	Spanien \| Spain \| Wasserversorgung \| Water supply \| Wasser \| Water
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Extent:	Online-Ressource v.: digital
Series:	Natural Resource Management and Policy ; 35
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	"Fundación Marcelino Botín Includes bibliographical references and index Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1; Introduction; 1.1 General Framework; 1.2 Objective; Chapter 2; Literature Review; 2.1 The Concept of Virtual Water; 2.2 The Colours of Water; 2.3 International Virtual-Water "Trade"; 2.4 Water Footprint Concept and Its Relation to Economic Growth; 2.4.1 Scale Effects; 2.4.2 Sectoral Composition; 2.4.3 Technological Change; Chapter 3; Methodological Approaches; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Water-Footprint Calculation; 3.3 Internal Water Footprint; 3.3.1 Crop Water Use; 3.3.2 Livestock Water Use 3.3.3 Industrial and Urban Water Use3.3.4 Virtual-Water "Exports"; 3.4 External Water Footprint; 3.4.1 Virtual-Water "Imports"; 3.5 Virtual-Water "Flow"; 3.6 Apparent Productivity of Water and Land; 3.7 Economic Value of Water; 3.8 An Econometric Approach; 3.8.1 Explaining Water Productivity by Water Scarcity and Water Quality; 3.8.2 Explaining Blue Virtual-Water "Exports" by Water Scarcity and Water Quality; 3.8.3 Explaining Water Scarcity by Water Quality; 3.8.4 Exchange Terms of Virtual-Water "Trade"; 3.8.5 Water Quality Valuation; Chapter 4; Data and Limitations; 4.1 Data sources 4.2 LimitationsChapter 5; Spain's Water Footprint; 5.1 Agricultural Water Footprint; 5.1.1 Water Footprint: Irrigation and Water Demand; 5.1.2 Economic Aspects of the Water Footprint; 5.2 Livestock Water Footprint; 5.2.1 Livestock Sector's Water Footprint; 5.2.2 Water Footprint of Animal Feed Production; 5.2.3 Economic Aspects of the Water Footprint; 5.3 Industrial Water Footprint; 5.3.1 Water Footprint; 5.3.2 Economic Water Footprint; 5.4 Urban Water Footprint; 5.4.1 Water Footprint; 5.5 The River Basin Scale: The Water Footprint of the Guadiana1; 5.5.1 Guadiana Water Footprint 5.5.2 Agricultural Water Footprint in the Guadiana Basin5.5.3 Water Footprint of Irrigated Crops (m3/ton); 5.5.4 Economic Aspects of the Water Footprint; Chapter 6; Net Virtual-Water "Flows"; 6.1 Virtual-Water "Imports"; 6.1.1 Major Crop-Related Virtual-Water "Imports"; 6.1.2 Economic Valuation of Virtual-Water "Imports"; 6.2 Virtual-Water "Exports"; 6.2.1 Virtual-Water "Trade"; 6.2.2 Economic Virtual-Water "Trade"; 6.3 Virtual-Water "Trade" Within the Guadiana Basin: The Regional Scale; Chapter 7; Bringing the Analysis to the Policy Context; 7.1 Changes in Land Productivity 7.1.1 The Ebro Basin7.1.2 The Duero Basin; 7.1.3 The Guadalquivir Basin; 7.1.4 The Júcar Basin; 7.1.5 The Tagus Basin; 7.1.6 The Guadiana Basin; 7.1.7 The Sur and Segura Basins; 7.2 Water Scarcity, Allocation and Economic Efficiency; 7.3 Water Productivity in Light of Water Scarcity; 7.4 Explaining Water Scarcity by Water Quality; 7.5 Virtual-Water "Trade" as an Adaptation to Climate Change; 7.6 Economic Growth, Water Footprint and Water Exchanges: Can Growth Be Decoupled from Water Use?; Chapter 8; Summary and Conclusions; 8.1 Virtual Water and Water Footprint of Spain 8.2 Water Allocation in Light of Virtual Water Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	978-1-4419-5741-2 ; 978-1-4419-5740-5
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-1-4419-5741-2 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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