Abstract
A Critical Approach on Using Total Water Footprint of Agricultural Products as a Potential Sustainable Development Indicator
Highlights
Achieving sustainable development represents a key issue in contemporary economies, which faces wideranging processes of globalization of production flows and accentuation of sustainability challenges ranging from ageing populations and high levels of unemployment to persistent droughts and limiting access to water resources.During the last decade numerous indicators were developed in order to analyze the degree and trends in achieving sustainable development goals
The results prove that total water footprint of the agricultural products is highly country-specific dependent
Coefficient (GC) and Shannon Entropy (SE): The aim of the research was to highlight the interdependencies of the EU member states regarding the management of the water resources used in agriculture. = Gini Coefficient (GC) this paper focuses on the footprint of n
Summary
Achieving sustainable development represents a key issue in contemporary economies, which faces wideranging processes of globalization of production flows and accentuation of sustainability challenges ranging from ageing populations and high levels of unemployment to persistent droughts and limiting access to water resources.During the last decade numerous indicators were developed in order to analyze the degree and trends in achieving sustainable development goals. In the context of recent global economic transformations and the ever increasing need to ensure the sustainability of production systems, water footprint could be considered one of the most relevant and versatile indicators in highlighting the sustainability of agricultural system development, by providing significant elements in designing and implementation of the policy options identified by using water consumption. As it has already been argued in literature [1, 2], water is a core-element of human well-being, indispensable to life, which provides the necessary premises for achieving sustainable economic growth and for promoting a healthy ecosystem, favorable to inclusive development. The application of numerical (concentration indicators) and graphical procedures (Lorentz concentration curves) adds value to the study by analyzing grouping, hierarchy and distribution of the water footprint of per capita national consumption of agricultural products, carried out in EU countries
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