The water footprint and its relationship with the virtual water: nuances of the water resources commodification
The aim of this article is to examine how the concepts of water footprint and virtual water articulate themselves under an ideological matrix which has been justified by alleged situations of global hydric resources scarcity. Due to the idea of an increasing shortage of water in the world, new disco...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Brasileira de Desenvolvimento Regional (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.bu.furb.br:article/4456 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ojsrevista.furb.br/ojs/index.php/rbdr/article/view/4456 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Hydric scarcity ideology virtual water water footprint. Agua virtual huella del agua ideología de la escasez hídrica. Ãgua virtual ideologia da escassez hídrica pegada da água. |
| Sumario: | The aim of this article is to examine how the concepts of water footprint and virtual water articulate themselves under an ideological matrix which has been justified by alleged situations of global hydric resources scarcity. Due to the idea of an increasing shortage of water in the world, new discourses on that subject promote strategies to solve the alleged global water crisis without focusing on deep material and cultural changes. We discuss here the nuances of the international agenda for the hydric resources field, which is based in the general idea according to which in order to face the water scarcity, large international corporations should control their increasing need of water using methodologies to calculate the amount they should use as those of water footprint and virtual water.JEL-Code | O13; Q25; Q56. |
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