Water Footprints
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
- 1st Edition - May 15, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Amit Kumar, Dafeng Hui, Junjie Lin, Tarun Kumar Thakur
- Language: English
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Description
Description
This interdisciplinary approach aims to present sustainable solutions to the growing challenge of ecological constraints while contributing to the achievement of the UN SDGs. Moreover, it addresses current management and policy concerns, highlighting the need for updated governance measures, particularly in light of international frameworks like the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.
Key features
Key features
- Covers the most updated information regarding SDGs, with a particular emphasis on policy and governance measures
- Includes the implications of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement
- Provides practical methods for mitigating current and future water demands in both aquatic and terrestrial landscapes
- Presents case studies that illustrate practical applications and strategies for environmental sustainability
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
Sadashiv Chaturvedi, Amit Kumar Sr., Liu Min, Junjie Lin Jr., Dafeng Hui, Tarun Kumar Thakur Sr. and Rupesh Kumar
2. Machine Learning-Based Estimation of Blue Water Footprints for Transboundary Water Management in the Arid Southwestern United States
Santosh Subhash Palmate
3. Water Footprint For Sustainable Practices
Mohd Aadil Bhatt, Tanveer Ali Dar, Rayees Ahmed, Zulaykha Khursheed and Fahim Un Nisa
4. Water Footprint for sustainability under SDG 6 for rejuvenation, conservation, and preservation of water resources
Gagan Matta
5. Water footprint in Ganga River basin and its applications to Improve Ecological Services
Saurabh Mishra, Yanqing Lian and Niraj Sharma
6. Environmental Footprints of Water—Concepts, Tools, Importance and Challenges
Randeep Singh, Saikat Sinha Ray and Young-Ho Ahn
7. The Water Footprint in Bioenergy and Other Primary Energy Sources
Arun Barathi and Debajyoti Kundu
8. Water Footprints of Hydropower Projects
Anant Kumar Rai and Navam Shrivastava
9. Evaluation of Water footprint under Dalbergia sissoo + Emblica offcinalis based Agroforestry model
Tarun Kumar Thakur Sr., Munesh Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Anita Thakur, DIGVESH Kumar PATEL and Rupesh Kumar
10. Water Footprint of Forest and Orchard Trees: A comprehensive review
Sunny Sharma
11. Water Footprint for Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices in Agroforestry: An overview
D R. Bhardwaj, Prashant Sharma, Rushal Dogra, Pooja Pooja, Sourabh Thakur, Alisha Keprate, Vaishali Sharma and Sakshi Tomar
12. Water footprint assessment and its importance in the ecosystem
AMIT KUMAR, Ponmani Subramanian, Subash Chandra Bose Kasiviswanathan, Kannan Pandian, Krishnaveni Dhanuskodi, Amit Kumar Sr. and Azad Gull
13. Water Footprint as a Tool for Integrated Water Resources Management
Shubham Anil Gade, Sushil Kumar Himanshu, Mallappa Jadiyappa Madolli and Jyotirmoy Pathak
14. Water Footprint of Agricultural Production and Policy Implications
Junjie Lin Jr., Amit Kumar Sr., Shengdao Shan, Peiqi Wang and Dan Liu
15. Water Footprint Assessment in Wastewater Treatment Plants: A Way’s Towards Practical Engineering Solution
Sanjeev Kumar Prajapati, Stuti Upadhyay, Tarun Pant, Harshit Tiwari, Pooja Upadhyay and Sanjeev Kumar Prajapati
16. Water footprint in Sponge City: How sustainable is that?
Sadashiv Chaturvedi, Dinesh Madhushanka Karunarathna, Nikhilesh Singh, Jinchao Xu, Jayanga Chathurya Sri Palihena and Abeer Sanyour
17. Chapter Structures, Challenges, and Future Perspectives of Water Footprint in Achieving the SDGs
Amit Kumar Sr., Tarun Kumar Thakur Sr., Dafeng Hui and Junjie Lin Jr.
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 15, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Amit Kumar
Dr. Amit Kumar is a Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He obtained his M.Tech and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and conducted his postdoctoral research at Hohai University, China. Dr. Kumar’s research spans the ecological health of aquatic habitats, water quality modeling, and water security practices to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. He has published five books, including Elsevier’s Climate Change in the Himalayas, and is an advisory board member for the Elsevier journal Ecological Indicators.
DH
Dafeng Hui
Dr. Dafeng Hui is Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in botany with an emphasis on ecology from the University of Oklahoma. His research interests lie in the broad areas of plant ecology, global change ecology, ecosystem ecology, and agro-ecology. Dr. Hui has published one book, several book chapters, and 200 papers in scientific journals including Nature, PNAS, Global Change Biology, Ecology, and New Phytologist. He has served as associate/academic editor for Plant Ecology, Journal of Plant Ecology, PLoSOne, The Crop Journal, and Frontier in Environmental Sciences, and on editorial boards of several other journals. Dr. Hui's research has been sponsored by the US NSF, USDA and DOE.
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Junjie Lin
Dr. Lin is a professor of School of Environment and Resources, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. He graduated from Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published 70 papers in Global Change Biology, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Science of The Total Environment, Geoderma, Catena, etc. Dr. Lin is currently the young editor of Biochar and Carbon Research, the editor of Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Frontier in Microbiology. Dr. Lin is mainly engaged in climate change and carbon and nitrogen cycle, agricultural waste recycling and soil remediation, and watershed ecology. His research is sponsored by 2 NFSC projects and international cooperation projects such as EU-sustainable farming.
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Tarun Kumar Thakur
Prof. Tarun Kumar Thakur is a Professor and Head of Department of Environmental Science, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (A Central University), Madhya Pradesh, India. He completed his PhD in 2006 from Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, India. His expertise and practical experience include bioremediation of heavy metals, microplastic pollutants in terrestrial ecosystems, riverine ecosystems, carbon neutrality in forestry etc. He has published more than 50 research and review articles in international journals of repute and completed 7 projects funded by Department of Science & Technology, MOEFCC, MPCST and MP State Biodiversity Board, India. Prof. Thakur is an honorary member of IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM).