Integrating the carbon and water footprints' costs in the water framework directive 2000/60/EC full water cost recovery concept: Basic principles towards their reliable calculation and socially just allocation

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-62

  Kanakoudis, Vasilis ^a   Tsitsifli, Stavroula ^a   Papadopoulou, Anastasia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Full water cost; Virtual water; Water footprint; Water losses

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COST; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN UNION; PRICE DETERMINATION; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER ECONOMICS; WATER FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84874228339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w4010045     Document Type: Article

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