 |
| Titel |
A virtual water network of the Roman world |
| VerfasserIn |
B. J. Dermody, R. P. H. van Beek, E. Meeks, K. Klein Goldewijk, W. Scheidel, Y. van der Velde, M. F. P. Bierkens, M. J. Wassen, S. C. Dekker |
| Medientyp |
Artikel
|
| Sprache |
Englisch
|
| ISSN |
1027-5606
|
| Digitales Dokument |
URL |
| Erschienen |
In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 18, no. 12 ; Nr. 18, no. 12 (2014-12-11), S.5025-5040 |
| Datensatznummer |
250120555
|
| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-18-5025-2014.pdf |
|
|
|
|
|
| Zusammenfassung |
| The Romans were perhaps the most impressive exponents of water resource
management in preindustrial times with irrigation and virtual water trade
facilitating unprecedented urbanization and socioeconomic stability for
hundreds of years in a region of highly variable climate. To understand
Roman water resource management in response to urbanization and climate
variability, a Virtual Water Network of the Roman World was developed. Using
this network we find that irrigation and virtual water trade increased Roman
resilience to interannual climate variability. However, urbanization arising
from virtual water trade likely pushed the Empire closer to the boundary of
its water resources, led to an increase in import costs, and eroded its
resilience to climate variability in the long term. In addition to improving
our understanding of Roman water resource management, our cost–distance-based analysis illuminates how increases in import costs arising from
climatic and population pressures are likely to be distributed in the future
global virtual water network. |
| |
|
| Teil von |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|