Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Rockström, Johan ^a,b   Falkenmark, Malin ^a   Karlberg, Louise ^a,b   Hoff, Holger ^b,c   Rost, Stefanie ^c   Gerten, Dieter ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT; BLUE WATER; DRY SPELLS; FOOD PRODUCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREEN WATER; POPULATION GROWTH; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER BALANCE MODELS; WORLD POPULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FOOD PRODUCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; POPULATION GROWTH; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 69249090100     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006767     Document Type: Article

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