environmental question which dominates our time and pose the major challenge to environmental organizations of control. Water is one …: demographic explosion, probable reduction in the water run-offs, scarcity of the resources, the degradation of the hydraulic …

In light of growing water scarcity, virtual water, or the water embedded in key water-intensive commodities, has been … water scarcity affects conflict behavior and we still lack empirical research intending to account for the role of virtual … water in affecting the odds of militarized disputes between states. Using quantitative methods and data on virtual water …

Understanding the impact of international trade on the use of water resources provides a set of interesting ideas and … indirect links between international trade and water resources. It shows that with the right domestic policies and … international trade system, trade in water-related services as well as the transfer of innovation and technologies can efficiently …

International Water Law has developed a set of rules for resolving interstate fresh water disputes that govern both the … will ensure an optimal and efficient allocation of resources.International fresh water disputes usually involve high … transaction costs such as unequal and asymmetric access to information, enforcement uncertainty, and unclear political goals of …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

Stated preference values for water quality ratings based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Water … rivers in the region for which water quality is rated Good. Valuations are skewed, with the mean value more than double the … median. Sources of heterogeneity in benefit values include differences in responses to average water quality information and …

This paper deals with the construction, decomposition and comparison of water footprint time series in 40 countries and … the possible causes behind the time evolution of water footprints in the various countries. We notice that the physical … and economic impact of economic growth on water resources has been significantly lower than what it could have been, for …

During the 1990s scholarship about water security abounded. However that debate abated at the ‎turn of this century …. This lack of exploration is surprising, particularly given the negative impacts ‎of climate change upon the world's water … resources, and the concomitant water insecurity that ‎has resulted. The present article addresses water insecurity in the Middle …

This paper deals with the construction, decomposition and comparison of water footprint time series in 40 countries and … the possible causes behind the time evolution of water footprints in the various countries.We notice that the physical and … economic impact of economic growth on water resources has been significantly lower than what it could have been, for several …

This work develops a statistical methodology of analysis of the international trade in virtual water in the context of … sustainable evolution. Using the example of agriculture, the impact of the flows of virtual water in the composition of products … role of water resources in terms of their scale and efficiency of use. The study of the impact of export and import of …