Tracking water for human activities: from the ivory tower to the ground

Martínez Aldaya, Maite; Sesma Martín, Diego; Rubio Varas, María del Mar

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Tracking water for human activities: from the ivory tower to the ground

dc.contributor.author	Martínez Aldaya, Maite
dc.contributor.author	Sesma Martín, Diego
dc.contributor.author	Rubio Varas, María del Mar
dc.contributor.department	Institute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOOD	en
dc.contributor.department	Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE	en
dc.contributor.funder	Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa	es
dc.date.accessioned	2022-04-12T10:43:56Z
dc.date.available	2022-04-12T10:43:56Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description.abstract	Water policy requires well established metrics for success. Precise metrics allow for quantifying progress and adjusting processes to produce the desired outcomes. We analyze the different schools of thought, nomenclatures and indicators developed for tracking water for human activities. After comparing a variety of terms related to water accounting used to serve the different purposes (environmental vs. ecological economics), we found that the different approaches to water tracking utilize identical terms to refer to distinctive concepts. The characterization of widely used terms such as 'water use' varies across different branches of literature. Different approaches to water measurement and its efficiency have an impact on water allocation. Our paper points out that the current definitions and methods for tracking water for human activities may offer contradictory advice over whether progress is being made towards desirable objectives, which may differ across stakeholders. This review aims at helping the transfer of academic results to empirical decision-making by discerning the differences among the variety of indicators available in the literature and their empirical implications. The ambiguity in the water terminology should be clarified before policy decisions can be useful in practice for guiding actions.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	The project leading to these results has received funding from ‘la Caixa’ and Caja Navarra Foundation, under agreement LCF/PR/PR13/51080004. Two of the authors, Sesma-Martín and Rubio-Varas, must also acknowledge the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as financing entities, through the research project reference HAR2017-86086-R (AEI/ERDF, EU). Sesma-Martín also benefits from the research contract reference 1295/2019, assigned to the History and Economics Group from UPNA.	en
dc.format.extent	12 p.
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dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.wre.2021.100190
dc.identifier.issn	2212-4284
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/42745
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Water Resources and Economics, 36, October 2021	en
dc.relation.projectID	info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/HAR2017-86086-R/ES/	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2021.100190
dc.rights	© 2021 The Authors. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
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dc.rights.accessRights	Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia	es
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dc.subject	Policymaking	en
dc.subject	Water consumption	en
dc.subject	Water efficiency	en
dc.subject	Water footprint	en
dc.subject	Water use	en
dc.subject	Water withdrawal	en
dc.title	Tracking water for human activities: from the ivory tower to the ground	en
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