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Quantifying freshwater sustainability through multiscale mapping
Author(s) -
Kanivetsky Roman,
Shmagin Boris
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2005eo500001
Subject(s) - sustainability , government (linguistics) , sustainability science , business , environmental resource management , resource (disambiguation) , state (computer science) , sustainability organizations , environmental planning , natural resource economics , geography , ecology , economics , computer science , biology , computer network , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm
The issue of freshwater availability and sustainability within U.S. federal and state governments. For example, a recent report by the U.S. National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) urges the federal government to take new steps to understand freshwater sustainability in the United States [NSTC, 2004]. Although the report refers to ‘availability’—a concept that in the past has applied only to human needs and that implies that a resource may decline or be liquidated—the focus of the report is on ‘sustainability’ as commonly defined in the literature today. Sustainability requires that consumption will not cause a decline or liquidation of freshwater resources.

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