How can trade benefit an increasingly water scarce world?

Contribution to International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development

http://ictsd.org/i/news/bioresreview/150546/

by Kate Ziemba of Bren School of Environmental Sciences and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

related to this, see also:

Steen-Olsen, K., Weinzettel, J., Cranston, G., Ercin, A.E. and Hertwich, E.G. (2012) Carbon, land, and water footprint accounts for the European Union: Consumption, production, and displacements through international trade, Environmental Science and Technology, 46(20): 10883-10891.

available at:

http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Steen-Olsen-et-al-2012.pdf

Hoekstra, A.Y. and Mekonnen, M.M. (2012) The water footprint of humanity, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(9): 3232-3237.

available at:

http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Hoekstra-Mekonnen-2012-WaterFootprint-of-Humanity.pdf

Fader, M., Gerten, D., Thammer, M., Heinke, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Lucht, W. and Cramer, W. (2011) Internal and external green-blue agricultural water footprints of nations, and related water and land savings through trade, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15(5): 1641-1660.

available at:

http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Fader-et-al-2011.pdf

Aldaya, M.M., Allan, J.A. and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2010) Strategic importance of green water in international crop trade, Ecological Economics, 69(4): 887-894.

available at:

http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Aldaya-Allan-Hoekstra-2010.pdf

Chapagain, A.K. and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2008) The global component of freshwater demand and supply: An assessment of virtual water flows between nations as a result of trade in agricultural and industrial products, Water International 33(1): 19-32.

available at:

http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/ChapagainHoekstra-2008-GlobalVirtualWaterFlows.pdf

Chapagain, A.K., Hoekstra, A.Y., and Savenije, H.H.G. (2006) Water saving through international trade of agricultural products, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 10(3): 455-468.

available at: http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Chapagain_et_al_2006.pdf