Isabella Zordan
Virtual water trade at the sub-national scale in South America: the role of Transnational Corporations.
Rel. Luca Ridolfi, Elena De Petrillo, Francesco Laio, Marta Tuninetti. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Per L'Ambiente E Il Territorio, 2024
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Abstract
The production of agricultural commodities requires a massive use of freshwater resources. However, given the worldwide trade of these commodities, water resources available and used in the production sites are virtually displaced to the importing countries, by means of trading companies, addressed as Transnational Corporations (TNCs). It is therefore pivotal to uncover the role played by companies in the international redistribution of water to enhance water stewardship, a concept related to social, environmental and economic sustainability in water use. Recent research started to emphasise the importance of tracking food commodities flows at the sub-national level, where the environmental and climatic heterogeneities of producing regions are directly related to variations in the unit water footprint (uWF, [m3/ton]) of cultivated crops.
This thesis aims to unveil the sub-national spatial and temporal variability of unit water footprints associated with major Transnational Corporations
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