The Water-Economy Nexus

Resource Scarcity, Natural Capital, Infrastructure Finance, Virtual Trade, and Pricing Reform for Sustainable Growth

De: Robert C. Brears

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Water-economy decisions shape every modern economy, yet water remains undervalued and underpriced. This analytical work reveals how freshwater scarcity constrains growth, drives risk, and reshapes finance, trade, and policy worldwide.

- Understand how water functions as a factor of production and a binding constraint on economic output
- Analyze the gap between water's economic value and its price, and why chronic mispricing persists
- Discover how water security shapes growth, volatility, and development at the macroeconomic scale
- Evaluate water risk and its transmission through firms, supply chains, and the financial system
- Examine the financing of water infrastructure and the instruments that close the investment gap
- Interpret virtual water and the hidden water embedded in global trade and supply chains
- Evaluate the rights, markets, and economic instruments that govern how water is allocated
- Discover forward-looking pathways: the circular water economy, digital innovation, and resilience

Written for policymakers, investors, economists, and water professionals, this work makes the economic significance of water legible and actionable. Build the understanding you need to secure water and the prosperity that depends on it.