Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Competition for water induced by transnational land acquisitions for agriculture

Is now out on Nature Communications the article of our research fellow Davide Chiarelli in collaboration with our professor Maria Cristina Rulli. 

The article combines process-based crop and hydrological modelling, agricultural statistics, and georeferenced information on individual transnational large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) to evaluate the associated emergence of water scarcity.

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