Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

J Liu, H Yang, SN Gosling, M Kummu, M Flörke… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat
to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research …

Freshwater scarcity

PH Gleick, H Cooley - Annual Review of Environment and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The availability and use of fresh water are critical for human health and for economic and
ecosystem stability. But the growing mismatch between human demands and natural …

Accounting for interactions between Sustainable Development Goals is essential for water pollution control in China

M Wang, ABG Janssen, J Bazin, M Strokal, L Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Meeting the United Nations'(UN's) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has
become a worldwide mission. How these SDGs interrelate, however, is not well known. We …

Sustainalism: An integrated socio-economic-environmental model to address sustainable development and sustainability

NP Hariram, KB Mekha, V Suganthan, K Sudhakar - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper delves into the multifaceted concept of sustainability, covering its evolution, laws,
principles, as well as the different domains and challenges related to achieving it in the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the economic impact of water scarcity in a changing world

F Dolan, J Lamontagne, R Link, M Hejazi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Water scarcity is dynamic and complex, emerging from the combined influences of climate
change, basin-level water resources, and managed systems' adaptive capacities. Beyond …

Pollution exacerbates China's water scarcity and its regional inequality

T Ma, S Sun, G Fu, JW Hall, Y Ni, L He, J Yi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inadequate water quality can mean that water is unsuitable for a variety of human uses, thus
exacerbating freshwater scarcity. Previous large-scale water scarcity assessments mostly …

A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution

M Wang, BL Bodirsky, R Rijneveld, F Beier… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Water security is at stake today. While climate changes influence water availability,
urbanization and agricultural activities have led to increasing water demand as well as …

Quality matters: Pollution exacerbates water scarcity and sectoral output risks in China

J Li, J Yang, M Liu, Z Ma, W Fang, J Bi - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Pollution exacerbates a region's water scarcity by making water unfit for different uses and
reducing freshwater availability. Local water scarcity may lead to economic output losses …

[HTML][HTML] Physical water scarcity metrics for monitoring progress towards SDG target 6.4: An evaluation of indicator 6.4. 2 “Level of water stress”

D Vanham, AY Hoekstra, Y Wada, F Bouraoui… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Target 6.4 of the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deals with the
reduction of water scarcity. To monitor progress towards this target, two indicators are used …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …