Water Interactions : Why We Need to Comprehend the Water-Climate-energy-food-economics-lifestyle Connections.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsson, Gustaf.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply.

Water-supply.

Power resources.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Water interactions

Place of Publication:

London : IWA Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

During the last two decades, the interrelationship between water and energy has become recognized. Likewise, the couplings to food and agriculture are getting increasingly obvious and alarming. In the last year, a record number of extreme weather events have been reported from most parts of the world. This is a visible demonstration how consequences of climate change must be understood and alleviated. The impacts of economics, lifestyle, and alarming inequalities are becoming increasingly recognisable. If the wealthy part of the world is not willing not make radical changes it does not matter what the less wealthy half of the global population will do to meet the climate and resource crisis. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate and describe how climate change, water, energy, food, and lifestyle are closely depending on each other. It is not sufficient to handle one discipline isolated from the others. This is the traditional "component view". The book defines and describes a systems view. The communications and relationships between the "components" have to be described and recognized. Consequently, the development of one discipline must be approached from a systems perspective. At the same time, the success of the systems perspective depends on the degree of knowledge of the individual parts or disciplines. The catchphrase of systems thinking has been caught in the phrase, "The whole is more than the sum of its parts". The idea is not new: the origin of this phrase is to be found already in Aristotle's Metaphysics more than 2300 years ago. The text may serve as an academic text (in engineering, economics, and environmental science) to introduce senior undergraduate and graduate students into systems thinking. Too often education encourages a "silo" thinking. Current global challenges can't be solved in isolation; they depend on each other. For example, water professionals should have a basic understanding of energy issues. Energy professionals ought to understand the dependency on water. Economic students should learn more how economy depends on natural resources like energy and water. Economics must include the environmental impact and ecological ceiling of economic activities.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Contents

About the author

Preface

Acknowledgements

Prologue - Some experiences in my lifetime

Chapter 1: Introduction - setting the scene

1.1 WHERE WE ARE TODAY

1.2 HOW WE GOT HERE

1.3 GOING FROM HERE

1.4 SOME SCENARIOS

1.4.1 Fossil fuels

1.4.2 Food

1.4.3 Renewable energy - critical minerals

1.4.4 Economics

1.5 OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK

Chapter 2: Systems thinking

2.1 SYSTEMIC APPROACH

2.2 FEEDBACK

2.3 WICKED PROBLEMS

2.4 HYPEROBJECTS

2.5 THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

2.6 GLOBAL RISKS

Chapter 3: Climate today

3.1 THE 1992 RIO CONFERENCE

3.2 CLIMATE AS REPORTED BY IPCC IN 2021

3.3 CLIMATE PIONEERS

3.4 THE MILLION-YEAR PERSPECTIVE

3.5 THE CO2 BUDGET

3.6 THE COP26 AGREEMENTS

3.7 DEFORESTATION

3.8 ACTIONS NEEDED

Chapter 4: Global warming impacts

4.1 GLOBAL IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

4.2 WEATHER VS CLIMATE

4.3 EXTREME WEATHER

4.3.1 Human-made vulnerability

4.4 TEMPERATURE

4.5 ROSSBY WAVES

4.6 DROUGHTS

4.7 AIR POLLUTION FROM WILDFIRES

4.8 PRECIPITATION

4.9 METHANE

4.10 OTHER SIGNIFICANT GREENHOUSE GASES

4.10.1 Nitrous oxide

4.10.2 Hydrofluorocarbons

4.11 CLIMATE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS

4.12 THE HUMAN COST OF CLIMATE CHANGE

4.13 ACTIONS NEEDED

Chapter 5: The water perspective

5.1 HOW WE GOT HERE

5.1.1 Drinking water

5.1.2 Sanitation

5.1.3 Water stress

5.2 THE STATE OF WATER RESOURCES

5.2.1 Water quantity

5.2.2 Water quality

5.2.3 Natural disasters and water

5.2.4 Glacier mass loss

5.2.5 Water supply from glaciers

5.2.6 Sea level rise and land subsidence

5.2.7 Predicting future water resources

5.2.8 Water conflicts

5.3 ENERGY FOR WATER SUPPLY AND WATER TREATMENT

5.3.1 Source water abstraction and conveyance

5.3.2 Desalination.

5.3.3 Irrigation and groundwater use

5.3.4 Wastewater treatment - water resource recovery

5.4 WATER IMPACT ON HYDROPOWER

5.5 ECONOMICS, TARIFFS, AND THE VALUE OF WATER

5.6 FOOD CONSUMPTION IMPACT ON WATER

5.6.1 Water use

5.7 LIFESTYLE AND WATER CONSUMPTION

5.8 OUR ATTITUDE TO NATURE

5.9 ACTIONS NEEDED

Chapter 6: The energy perspective

6.1 HOW WE GOT HERE

6.1.1 Global energy

6.1.2 Electrical energy

6.1.3 Transport

6.2 ENERGY CONSUMPTION TODAY

6.3 CLIMATE AND ENERGY INTERACTIONS

6.4 WATER NEEDS FOR ENERGY

6.5 FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTION - IMPACT ON WATER AND ENVIRONMENT

6.5.1 Tar sand operations

6.5.2 Hydraulic fracturing

6.5.3 Flaring

6.5.4 Coal

6.5.5 Oil accidents and oil pollution

6.6 BIOFUEL PRODUCTION

6.6.1 Water use

6.6.2 Burning wood

6.7 ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION

6.8 HYDROPOWER

6.8.1 Impact of reservoirs

6.8.1.1 Evaporation

6.8.1.2 Public health

6.8.1.3 Fishing and biodiversity

6.8.1.4 The risks of dam failures

6.9 THERMAL ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS

6.9.1 Nuclear power

6.9.2 Fossil-fuelled power systems

6.9.3 Water requirements

6.10 CARBON CAPTURE

6.11 SOLAR AND WIND POWER

6.11.1 Energy efficiency and consumption

6.11.2 Solar

6.11.3 Wind power

6.12 ENERGY STORAGE

6.12.1 Batteries

6.12.1.1 Batteries for transportation

6.12.1.2 Stationary energy storage - flow cell batteries

6.12.2 Hydrogen

6.12.2.1 Hydrocarbon route

6.12.2.2 Electrolytic production

6.12.2.3 Photosynthetic hydrogen

6.13 CRITICAL RESOURCES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY

6.13.1 Cobalt

6.13.1.1 The human cost

6.13.1.2 Environmental impact

6.13.1.3 Ownership

6.13.1.4 The supply chain

6.13.1.5 Support for the miners

6.13.2 Lithium

6.13.2.1 Water impact

6.13.2.2 Other lithium sources

6.14 ENERGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

6.14.1 Coal and public health

6.14.2 Biomass burning

6.15 ACTIONS NEEDED

Chapter 7: The food perspective

7.1 FOOD AND CLIMATE CHANGE

7.1.1 Global meat production and consumption

7.1.2 Environmental impact

7.2 LAND AREA FOR FOOD

7.3 FOOD WASTE

7.4 WATER FOR FOOD

7.4.1 Irrigation, water efficiencies, and available technologies

7.4.2 Water quality

7.5 ENERGY FOR FOOD

7.5.1 Irrigation

7.5.2 Fertilizers

7.6 CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE

7.7 FOOD-RELATED HEALTH

7.7.1 Targets for food production and consumption

7.7.2 Health risks factors

7.7.2.1 Human health

7.7.2.2 Antibiotics

7.8 ACTIONS NEEDED

Chapter 8: Economics

8.1 INEQUALITIES

8.1.1 Climate change

8.1.2 Water inequalities

8.1.3 Energy inequalities

8.1.4 Land use and deforestation

8.1.5 Food inequalities

8.2 ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

8.2.1 The polluter pays principle

8.2.2 Paying for climate change

8.3 DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS

8.3.1 Circular economics

8.4 ENERGY SUBSIDIES

8.5 ACTIONS NEEDED

Chapter 9: Lifestyle

9.1 THE REAL DIFFICULTY

9.2 RELATION BETWEEN WEALTH AND EMISSIONS

9.3 MEASURING NATIONAL EMISSIONS

9.4 CONSUMPTION PATTERNS

9.4.1 Apparel industry

9.4.2 Aviation

9.5 ACTIONS

Chapter 10: Crisis or hope

A1: Units

A2: Glossary

A3: Abbreviations

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1342501198