Coping with water scarcity in a globalized world

Project Information

CWASI

Grant agreement ID: 647473

DOI 10.3030/647473

Project closed

EC signature date 7 April 2015

Start date 1 July 2015

End date 31 December 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 222 500,00

EU contribution € 1 222 500,00

Coordinated by

POLITECNICO DI TORINO
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (34)

Is water consumption embedded in crop prices? A global data-driven analysis

Author(s): Benedetta Falsetti, Elena Vallino, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 15/10, 2020, Page(s) 104016, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba782

Climate anomalies associated with the occurrence of rockfalls athigh-elevation in the Italian Alps

Author(s): Roberta Paranunzio, Francesco Laio, Marta Chiarle, Guido Nigrelli, Fausto Guzzetti
Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Issue 16/9, 2016, Page(s) 2085-2106, ISSN 1684-9981
Publisher: Copernicus - European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-16-2085-2016

Ever-increasing agricultural land and water productivity: a global multi-crop analysis

Author(s): Marta Tuninetti, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 15/9, 2020, Page(s) 0940a2, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abacf8

Water Debt Indicator Reveals Where Agricultural Water Use Exceeds Sustainable Levels

Author(s): Marta Tuninetti, Stefania Tamea, Carole Dalin
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 55/3, 2019, Page(s) 2464-2477, ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2018wr023146

Charting out the future agricultural trade and its impact on water resources

Author(s): Marta Tuninetti, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 714, 2020, Page(s) 136626, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136626

Measuring economic water scarcity in agriculture: a cross-country empirical investigation

Author(s): Elena Vallino, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio
Published in: Environmental Science & Policy, Issue 114, 2020, Page(s) 73-85, ISSN 1462-9011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.017

Regional-scale analysis of extreme precipitation from short and fragmented records

Author(s): Andrea Libertino, Paola Allamano, Francesco Laio, Pierluigi Claps
Published in: Advances in Water Resources, Issue 112, 2018, Page(s) 147-159, ISSN 0309-1708
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.12.015

The challenge of understanding the water-food nexus complexity

Author(s): Francesco Laio, Maria Cristina Rulli, Samir Suweis
Published in: Advances in Water Resources, Issue 110, 2017, Page(s) 406-407, ISSN 0309-1708
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.12.001

Global effects of local food-production crises: a virtual water perspective

Author(s): Stefania Tamea, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 6/1, 2016, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/srep18803

To trade or not to trade: Link prediction in the virtual water network

Author(s): Marta Tuninetti, Stefania Tamea, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Advances in Water Resources, Issue 110, 2017, Page(s) 528-537, ISSN 0309-1708
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.08.013

A Fast Track approach to deal with the temporal dimension of crop water footprint

Author(s): Marta Tuninetti, Stefania Tamea, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 12/7, 2017, Page(s) 074010, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6b09

Technical note: Design flood under hydrological uncertainty

Author(s): Anna Botto, Daniele Ganora, Pierluigi Claps, Francesco Laio
Published in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Issue 21/7, 2017, Page(s) 3353-3358, ISSN 1607-7938
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-3353-2017

A comparison of regional flood frequency analysis approaches in a simulation framework

Author(s): D. Ganora, F. Laio
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 52/7, 2016, Page(s) 5644-5661, ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR018604

Global sensitivity of high-resolution estimates of crop water footprint

Author(s): Marta Tuninetti, Stefania Tamea, Paolo D'Odorico, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Water Resources Research, Issue 51/10, 2015, Page(s) 8257-8272, ISSN 0043-1397
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017148

The environmental cost of a reference withdrawal from surface waters: Definition and geography

Author(s): Irene Soligno, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio
Published in: Advances in Water Resources, Issue 110, 2017, Page(s) 228-237, ISSN 0309-1708
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.016

Intra-EU agricultural trade, virtual water flows and policy implications

Author(s): M. Antonelli, S. Tamea, H. Yang
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 587-588, 2017, Page(s) 439-448, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.105

The past and future of food stocks

Author(s): Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi, Paolo D’Odorico
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 11/3, 2016, Page(s) 035010, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/035010

National water, food, and trade modeling framework: The case of Egypt

Author(s): A. Abdelkader, A. Elshorbagy, M. Tuninetti, F. Laio, L. Ridolfi, H. Fahmy, A.Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 639, 2018, Page(s) 485-496, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.197

Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts

Author(s): Paolo D’Odorico, Joel Carr, Carole Dalin, Jampel Dell’Angelo, Megan Konar, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi, Lorenzo Rosa, Samir Suweis, Stefania Tamea, Marta Tuninetti
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 14/5, 2019, Page(s) 053001, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab05f4

Shock transmission in the International Food Trade Network

Author(s): Tiziano Distefano, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi, Stefano Schiavo
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/8, 2018, Page(s) e0200639, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200639

A change of perspective in network centrality

Author(s): Carla Sciarra, Guido Chiarotti, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 8/1, 2018, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33336-8

Tools for reconstructing the bilateral trade network: a critical assessment

Author(s): Tiziano Distefano, Marta Tuninetti, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Economic Systems Research, Issue 2019, 2019, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 0953-5314
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09535314.2019.1703173

Evaluating the Effects of Urbanization Evolution on Air Temperature Trends Using Nightlight Satellite Data

Author(s): Roberta Paranunzio, Serena Ceola, Francesco Laio, Alberto Montanari
Published in: Atmosphere, Issue 10/3, 2019, Page(s) 117, ISSN 2073-4433
Publisher: Rotoweb Cantelli
DOI: 10.3390/atmos10030117

Global-scale human pressure evolution imprints on sustainability of river systems

Author(s): Serena Ceola, Francesco Laio, Alberto Montanari
Published in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Issue 23/9, 2019, Page(s) 3933-3944, ISSN 1607-7938
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/hess-23-3933-2019

Age distribution dynamics with stochastic jumps in mortality

Author(s): Salvatore Calabrese, Amilcare Porporato, Francesco Laio, Paolo D’Odorico, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 473/2207, 2017, Page(s) 20170451, ISSN 1364-5021
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2017.0451

Erratum: Corrigendum: Global effects of local food-production crises: a virtual water perspective

Author(s): Stefania Tamea, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 8/1, 2018, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/srep46987

Spatial Distribution of the International Food Prices: Unexpected Heterogeneity and Randomness

Author(s): Tiziano Distefano, Guido Chiarotti, Francesco Laio, Luca Ridolfi
Published in: Ecological Economics, Issue 159, 2019, Page(s) 122-132, ISSN 0921-8009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.01.010

Improving an Extreme Rainfall Detection System with GPM IMERG data

Author(s): Paola Mazzoglio, Francesco Laio, Simone Balbo, Piero Boccardo, Franca Disabato
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 11/6, 2019, Page(s) 677, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs11060677

The globalization of riverine environmental resources through the food trade

Author(s): Irene Soligno, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 14/2, 2019, Page(s) 024020, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf93a

Analysis of the current world biofuel production under a water–food–energy nexus perspective

Author(s): Emanuele Moioli, Federico Salvati, Marco Chiesa, Roza T. Siecha, Flavio Manenti, Francesco Laio, Maria Cristina Rulli
Published in: Advances in Water Resources, Issue 121, 2018, Page(s) 22-31, ISSN 0309-1708
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.07.007

The Water Suitcase of Migrants: Assessing Virtual Water Fluxes Associated to Human Migration

Author(s): Rodolfo Metulini, Stefania Tamea, Francesco Laio, Massimo Riccaboni
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 11/4, 2016, Page(s) e0153982, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153982

An Integrated Methodology to Study Riparian Vegetation Dynamics: From Field Data to Impact Modeling

Author(s): M. Latella, M. B. Bertagni, P. Vezza, C. Camporeale
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 12/8, 2020, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002094

Virtual water trade and water footprint of agricultural goods: the1961–2016 CWASI database

Author(s): Marta Tuninetti; Stefania Tamea; Irene Soligno; Francesco Laio
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1866-3508
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-226

Reconciling contrasting views on economic complexity

Author(s): Carla Sciarra, Guido Chiarotti, Luca Ridolfi, Francesco Laio
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16992-1

Book chapters (2)

The Italian Virtual Water Trade and Water Footprint of Agricultural Production: Trends and Perspectives.

Author(s): Stefania Tamea; Marta Antonelli; Elena Vallino;
Published in: Water Law, Policy and Economics in Italy: Between National Autonomy and EU Law Constraints, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) Chapter 12, ISBN 978-3-030-69074-8
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69075-5

Water resources, food security and the role of vortual water trade in the MENA region

Author(s): Marta Antonelli, Francesco Laio, Stefania Tamea
Published in: Environmental change and human security in the Middle East and Africa, 2017, Page(s) 199-217
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45648-5_11