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A statistical analysis of the social and environmental risks of the international trade in virtual water

Kopnova, Y. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-9

This work develops a statistical methodology of analysis of the international trade in virtual water in the context of sustainable evolution. Using the example of agriculture, the impact of the flows of virtual water in the composition of products using indicators related to social and...

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A gravity model of virtual water trade

Fracasso, Andrea - In: Ecological Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 215-228

This work investigates the determinants of bilateral ‘virtual water trade (VWT) flows’ by means of an estimated gravity model of trade applied to the services of the water embodied in the agricultural goods exchanged across countries. In line with the recent literature on the gravity model...

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Is irrigation driven by the price of internationally traded agricultural products?

Cheptea, Angela; Laroche Dupraz, Catherine - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 1 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18

A recent trend of literature investigates how international trade compensates or accentuates the differences in countries’ endowments in water resources and whether trade regulation should be used to improve the use of water resources at the global level. We develop a simple model establishing...

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A statistical analysis of the social and environmental risks of the international trade in virtual water

Kopnova, Y. - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-9

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Analyses of water footprint of Beijing in an interregional input–output framework

Zhang, Zhuoying; Yang, Hong; Shi, Minjun - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2494-2502

Beijing is under severe water resource pressure due to the rapid economic development and growing population. This study quantitatively evaluates the water footprint of Beijing in an interregional input–output framework with a focus on blue water resources and uses. The inter-connections of...

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An Evaluation of China’s Water Footprint

Ge, Liqiang; Xie, Gaodi; Zhang, Caixia; Li, Shimei; Qi, Yue - In: Water Resources Management 25 (2011) 10, pp. 2633-2647

concept and calculating method of water footprint, this paper estimates the water footprint of China in 2007. The result shows … that the total water footprint of China is 856.34 × 10<Superscript>9</Superscript> m<Superscript>3</Superscript> and the … footprint is obvious among all provinces of China. Generally, the more developed cities, the southern and coastal provinces have …

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