Advancing water footprint assessment research: Challenges in monitoring progress towards sustainable development goal 6

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a,b   Chapagain, Ashok K ^c   van Oel, Pieter R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Water Footprint Network   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumption; IPAT equation; Sustainability; Sustainable development goals; Virtual water trade; Water footprint assessment; Water pollution; Water productivity; Water resources management; Water scarcity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020902985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9060438     Document Type: Editorial

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