Andalusian agricultural sectors are relatively small, but consume by 90% of the available water resources. More than 50% of the final demands for agricultural products are exported to other Spanish regions or abroad. Using a virtual water concept with an input-output framework, we find that a...

The objective of this work is to analyze the effects that an increase in the price of the water delivered to the agriculture sector to promote the conservation of this resource would have on the efficiency of the consumption of water and the possible reallocation of water to the remaining...

In the field of Ecological Economics, the need of using physical indicators to analyse economic processes, at the same time they serve as tools in decision making, has been lately highlighted. Virtual Water (VW) and Water Footprint (WF) are two useful indicators in achieving this objective, the...

Los proyectos mineros debido a su potencial riesgo de contaminación, en concreto a lo que se refiere a los recursos hídricos, deben ser sometidos a un estricto control medioambiental. En esta investigación realizamos el estudio del metabolismo hídrico (MH) de la actividad minera Las Cruces...