Arjen Y. Hoekstra: A Water Management Researcher to Be Remembered
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
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- In the future, problems of increasing water scarcity will, to less and lesser extents, be solvable by ‘water policies’ from ‘water ministries’, as the cause of water scarcity problems do not lie in water aspects, but in population and production growth;
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- Making compromises in politics and governance is an essential condition for societal progress. Making compromises in science hampers academic progress.
3. Discussion of Contributions to the Special Issue
3.1. Water Value Flows Upstream
3.2. Water and Global Food Production
3.3. The Water-Energy Nexus
3.4. Water Resource Use for Sustainable Healthy Diets
3.5. Water Scarcity Management in Spain
3.6. Understaning and Resolving Water Issues in China
3.7. The Water Footprint of the United States
3.8. Water Stress and Water Footprint Accounting
4. Closing Statement
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Krol, M.S.; Booij, M.J.; Hogeboom, R.J.; Karandish, F.; Schyns, J.F.; Wang, R. Arjen Y. Hoekstra: A Water Management Researcher to Be Remembered. Water 2022, 14, 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010050
Krol MS, Booij MJ, Hogeboom RJ, Karandish F, Schyns JF, Wang R. Arjen Y. Hoekstra: A Water Management Researcher to Be Remembered. Water. 2022; 14(1):50. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010050
Chicago/Turabian StyleKrol, Maarten S., Martijn J. Booij, Rick J. Hogeboom, Fatemeh Karandish, Joep F. Schyns, and Ranran Wang. 2022. "Arjen Y. Hoekstra: A Water Management Researcher to Be Remembered" Water 14, no. 1: 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010050
APA StyleKrol, M. S., Booij, M. J., Hogeboom, R. J., Karandish, F., Schyns, J. F., & Wang, R. (2022). Arjen Y. Hoekstra: A Water Management Researcher to Be Remembered. Water, 14(1), 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14010050