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Depletive virtual water trade embedded in the water-energy-soil-trade-discourse nexus
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.2992
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Book
Date Issued
2017-11-01
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Schaldach, Ruth
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Citation
Depletive Virtual Water Trade Embedded in the Water-Energy-Soil-Trade-Discourse Nexus; Zugl.: Kassel, Univ. Diss. (2019)
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Publisher
Kassel University Press
ISBN
978-3-7376-0778-0
Virtual water trade increased with globalisation. However, this trade does not always flow in such direction, that water abundant regions supply water scarce regions with water intense products. Often the opposite happens and depletive water trade intensifies causing water scarcity. This work focuses on the Water-Energy-Soil-Trade-Nexus with each element seen as a materialisation of discourses. Two cases illustrate specific parts of the Nexus, firstly, the close relationship of market liberalisation, foreign direct investment and virtual water trade is represented with Viet Nam’s Doi Moi policy and rapid economic growth. Secondly, the water-energy dimension linkages are drawn by following the case of hydraulic fracturing from the U.S. to Australia’s gas drills embedded in a global perspective. This work helps to understand especially cases, where virtual water trade dries out water resources in already vulnerable areas.
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620: Ingenieurwissenschaften
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