Water Security, Water Economics and the Evolution of Water Consumption
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Scarcity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 11294
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Interests: water resources; computational intelligence; sedimentation; stationarity/non-stationarity; uncertainty analysis; energy; macroeconomics
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Dear Colleagues,
Water Security, Water Economics and the Evolution of Water Consumption are three of the most important aspects of water in terms of its definition as a physical resource and as an economic good, which upon occasion is a necessity. On the one hand, we have water consumption which determines the demand for water mainly in terms of consumption in agriculture which accounts for 70% of its consumption. This influences directly the capability of food production and the size of food trade at the global and country level, two major problems of this century. This is due to the fact that both water availability, climate changes influencing the hydrological cycle and economic robustness are inequitably distributed at the country level and pockets where all three are unfavorable do exist, some of which are combined with skyrocketing population increase and transboundary water supply problems. As a result, Water Security plays an increasingly important role in countries that belong to not only this latter group of countries facing immediate problems but also, in the form of a preemptive measure, to countries that belong to groups of lesser danger in terms of water availability. It is highly probable that after passing the mid-century mark Water Security will be an influential part of economic policy for most countries. The determinant framework within these two aspects operate is the third aspect, Water Economics. As a discipline of Economics, it is still in its infancy despite its importance, as economists tend to place emphasis on the integrated picture rather than its parts attempting to resolve sectoral difficulties through trade-offs, something that clearly does not apply in a simple way to water. In the future, its importance will equal Energy Economics and perhaps will exceed it as water cannot be created from other sources while energy can.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together articles that analyze these three facets at the global, country, and intra- and inter-country levels, the last two being of primary importance as they determine the de facto realistic global aspect. The wealth of subjects included is such that prospective authors belong to a wider than usual class as presenting a massive front will not only serve the scientific purpose served by these facets but will give these authors the opportunity to put a foot in the door at an early stage of the formal development of a unified theory and its applications which are on the way of playing a major scientific and social role.
Dr. Dionysia Panagoulia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water security
- water infrastructure
- water climate change
- water economics
- water management
- water demand
- water value
- water consumption
- water and population
- sustainability
