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SUMMARY:Food and environmental sustainability - The water perspective
DTSTART:20090303T173000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Malin Falkenmark\, Senior Scientific Advisor at SIWI\, S
 weden\nSince water is the bloodstream of the biosphere  it constitutes a k
 ey component in both food production and environmental sustainability. Whi
 le most attention in the past has been concentrated on blue/liquid water  
 this study represents a shift in thinking by incorporating also green wate
 r/naturally infiltrated soil water. The present consumptive water use in f
 ood production  estimated at some 7000 km3/yr  may be expected to increase
  till 2050 with some 3000 km3/yr. The speaker analyses from where these am
 ounts of water may come. It takes both a global and a country-level perspe
 ctive  the latter based on a model study (LPJ model by the Potsdam Climate
  Institute)  incorporating both climate change and population growth .  Th
 e outcome is discussed against a background of eco-hydrosolidarity as a ge
 neral goal  and what such a goal would involve in terms of protection of e
 cosystems  aquatic ones depending on blue water  and terrestrial ones depe
 nding on green water.
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