Water, Food and Welfare - Water Footprint as a Complementary Approach to Water Management in Mexico

This book addresses the following topics: the contemporary model for water management and alternative approaches; the socioeconomic framework, water policy and institutions; water use for food purposes, water-resources inventory and irrigation; manifestations of welfare loss and water prices; change in dietary patterns and water security; hydrological stress and pressures on water availability; groundwater management problems; vulnerability and climate change; water demand of major crops; gray water footprint and water pollution; gray water footprint and mining; virtual water and food trade; estimates of the water footprint of four key cereals, forage, livestock and bottled drinks. It is the result of a cooperation between 16 researchers from eleven Mexican academic institutions.

List of contents

The contemporary model for water management and the alternative approaches.- Socioeconomic framework.- Water policy and institutions.- Water use for food purposes.- Water resources inventory and implications of irrigation modernization.- Manifestations of welfare loss.- Prices and water.- A strategy with limited effectiveness.- Water use pattern.- Change in the dietary pattern and water security.- Hydrological Stress and Pressures on Water Availability.- Problems associated to groundwater management.- Vulnerability and Climate Change.- Water demand of major crops.- A methodology.- Gray water footprint and water pollution.- Gray footprint and mining.- Impact of metal extraction on water.- Considerations on virtual water and agri-food trade.- Water footprint of four cereals in Irrigated District 011.- Forage water footprint in the Comarca Lagunera.- Water footprint in livestock.- Water footprint of bottled drinks of and food security.

Product details

• Assisted by: Roberto M. Constantino-Toto (Editor), Hilda R. Davila-Ibanez (Editor), Rosario H. Perez-Espejo (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2016
• EAN: 9783319288222
• ISBN: 978-3-31-928822-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 235 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 252 p. 76 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; C, Climate Change, Water, The environment, environmental science, engineering & technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Earth System Sciences, Physical geography, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental management,, Climate Change Management and Policy, Climate Sciences