Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

• Published in: Earth's future Vol. 5; no. 6; pp. 545 - 559
• Main Authors: Liu, Junguo, Yang, Hong, Gosling, Simon N., Kummu, Matti, Flörke, Martina, Pfister, Stephan, Hanasaki, Naota, Wada, Yoshihide, Zhang, Xinxin, Zheng, Chunmiao, Alcamo, Joseph, Oki, Taikan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA Wiley Periodicals, Inc 01.06.2017; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Annual variations; Economic conditions; Economic development; environmental flow requirements; Freshwater resources; Globalization; green water; Hydrologic models; Hydrologists; Hydrology; Indicators; Moisture; Politics; Scarcity; Scientists; Soil moisture; Soil water; virtual water; Water availability; water footprint; Water quality; Water resources; Water scarcity; Water use; Freshwater resources; green water; water footprint; virtual water; water quality; environmental flow requirements

Water scarcity has become a major constraint to socio‐economic development and a threat to livelihood in increasing parts of the world. Since the late 1980s, water scarcity research has attracted much political and public attention. We here review a variety of indicators that have been developed to...