The Hydro-Economic Interdependency of Cities: Virtual Water Connections of the Phoenix, Arizona Metropolitan Area

The Hydro-Economic Interdependency of Cities: Virtual Water Connections of the Phoenix, Arizona Metropolitan Area

Water footprinting has revealed hydro-economic interdependencies between distant global geographies via trade, especially of agricultural and manufactured goods. However, for metropolitan areas, trade not only entails commodity flows at many scales from intra-municipal to global, but also substantia...

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Main Authors: Richard R. Rushforth, Benjamin L. Ruddell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-06-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
urban water footprint
virtual water
water infrastructure
commodity flows
metropolitan area
cooperative water resources management
science of cities
economic networks
urban metabolism
socio-hydrology
hydro-economics
coupled natural-human systems
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/7/8522

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