IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
1476(1), С. 012021 - 012021
Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025
Abstract
Agriculture
plays
a
significant
role
in
driving
water
demand
and
degradation.
Assessing
sustainability
is
crucial
for
understanding
the
impact
of
current
use
on
future
availability
preserving
quantity
quality.
Maize
cultivation,
practiced
over
150
countries,
ranks
third
cereal
production
worldwide,
following
wheat
barley.
This
study
focuses
importance
watersheds
meeting
agricultural
needs,
specifically
context
maize
farming.
The
research
was
conducted
Kampar
watershed,
Indonesia.
utilized
quantitative
methodology
to
assess
footprint,
applying
Penman-Monteith
method
alongside
benefit
transfer
techniques.
footprint
crops
calculated
using
Cropwat
8.0
software.
results
showed
that
overall
agriculture
watershed
42.94
m
3
per
ton.
In
district,
had
green
8.67
/ton,
blue
7.93
grey
3.28
/ton.
Pelalawan
15.5
1.33
6.23
/ton
maize.
agriculture's
provides
valuable
insights
climate-resilient
crop
development
anticipating
regional
shifts
face
climate
change.
The Science of The Total Environment,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
966, С. 178676 - 178676
Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025
Freshwater
scarcity
is
a
growing
global
concern,
driven
by
increasing
demand,
environmental
changes,
and
unsustainable
management
practices.
Assessing
water
resources
from
criticality
perspective
highlights
the
importance
reliance
of
various
sectors
on
specific
sources.
Existing
abiotic
resource
assessments
provide
valuable
frameworks
for
evaluating
vulnerability
supply
risks
but
have
predominantly
focused
minerals,
overlooking
freshwater
criticality.
Thus,
we
developed
Water
SCARCE,
novel
integrative
approach
assessment.
This
framework
builds
existing
assessment
methods,
ESSENZ
SCARCE
while
aligning
with
only
evaluation
Sonderegger
et
al.
(2015).
The
methodology
adapts
expands
categories
indicators
to
deliver
characterisation
factors.
Key
modifications
methods
include
integrating
parameters
freshwater,
resulting
in
addressing
dimensions
like
availability,
social
When
comparing
(2015),
all
address
risk,
vulnerability,
aspects.
However,
uniquely
incorporates
governance
geopolitical
components,
such
as
political
stability
neighbouring
countries,
which
adds
influenced
transboundary
resources.
Despite
this
strength,
Sonderegger's
method
lacks
distinct
dimension
quality
considerations,
areas
where
provides
additional
insights,
more
comprehensive
Our
findings
reveal
that
aspects
physical
socio-economic
well
acceptability,
are
relevant
assessing
resource.
study
innovative
contributions
bridging
methodological
gaps
enhancing
evaluations.
Future
applications
calculation
factors,
enabling
product-level
Encyclopedia,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
5(2), С. 45 - 45
Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2025
Overpopulation’s
central
role
in
environmental
degradation
is
intermittently
challenged.
This
article
assesses
the
impact
of
mounting
demographic
pressures
on
six
critical
global
sustainability
challenges:
deforestation,
climate
change,
biodiversity
loss,
fishery
depletion,
water
scarcity,
and
soil
degradation.
By
synthesizing
findings
from
hundreds
peer-reviewed
studies,
offers
a
comprehensive
review
effects
expanding
human
populations
most
pressing
current
problems.
Although
rate
population
growth
worldwide
slowing,
numbers
are
expected
to
continue
increasing
Earth
until
end
century.
Current
research
confirms
that
overpopulation
causes
substantial
potentially
irreversible
impacts
cannot
be
ignored
if
international
policy
effective.
Frontiers in Environmental Science,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
13
Опубликована: Май 12, 2025
Environmental
footprints
should
play
a
key
role
in
monitoring
the
bioeconomy.
They
can
capture
environmental
pressures
and
impacts
of
biomass
production
extraction,
as
well
provide
comparable
per
capita
values
disclosing
how
use
is
distributed
globally.
As
such,
could
help
ensure
sustainable
transition
implementation
To
develop
national
bioeconomy
systems,
we
suggest
six
specific
indicators
revise
state-of-art
regards
their
methodological
development,
assess
applicability
feasibility
for
contributing
to
systemic
monitoring.
Drawing
on
several
years
collaborations
between
researchers
from
different
footprint
domains,
introduce
an
integrated
modelling
approach
link
global
trade
models
accounting
with
spatially
impact
assessments
terrestrial
production.
The
captures
all
it
combines
pressure
(forest-
agricultural
biomass,
land
greenhouse
gas
emissions)
(water
scarcity
biodiversity).
This
comprehensive
manageable
set
addresses
main
sustainability
challenges
developments.
