Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …
AY Hoekstra - Water Resources Management, 2017 - Springer
This paper reviews the evolvement of water footprint assessment (WFA) as a new research field over the past fifteen years. The research is rooted in four basic thoughts:(1) there is a …
The total emission mitigation potential achievable by the year 2030, calculated based on sectoral assessments, is sufficient to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to half of the …
Understanding the water use of power production is an important step to both a sustainable energy transition and an improved understanding of water conservation measures …
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is an important technology to reduce fossil CO 2 emissions and remove CO 2 from the atmosphere. Scenarios for CCS deployment …
Sustainable agricultural intensification is needed to tackle food insecurity and global environmental change. Local environmental conditions determine the needs and potentials …
For centuries, humans have resorted to building dams to gain control over freshwater available for human consumption. Although dams and their reservoirs have made many …
This research examines the impacts of nuclear energy consumption (NEC) and hydro electricity consumption (HEC) on environmental quality. In doing so, the study examines …
Renewable sources of energy are providing an increasing share of the electricity generation mix, but their intermittency drives a need for energy storage. At the same time, water …