From water footprint to climate change adaptation: Capacity development with teenagers to save water

Christin Haida, Ashok K. Chapagain, Wolfgang Rauch, Maximilian Riede and Katrin Schneider

Land Use Policy, 2019, vol. 80, issue C, 456-463

Abstract: This article presents a bottom-up approach which attempts to link the Water Footprint (WF) concept with climate change adaptation and capacity development. The approach was developed and tested in cooperation with a partner school in Austria aiming to provide a starting point for WF assessment and formulate an improvement response. The pupils reduced their WF by 9%, and became change agents. The approach assists young people to develop self-efficacy by discovering the connection between their individual actions at local level and aspects of climate change adaptation at global level. It provides a tool to increase this understanding and contribute to the adaptation of distant impacts of climate change and reduce vulnerability.

Keywords: Climate change adaptation; Water footprint; Freshwater management policy; Austria; Tyrol (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.02.043

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