Increases in water demand due to population growth, industrial development and urbanization necessitate economically efficient use of water resources worldwide. This is particularly true in the dryland zones of the world relying on irrigated agriculture for economic development such as in...

"The international fragmentation of current production processes has led to an explosion of trade in intermediate products, indirectly impacting jobs, income, resources, energy, and emissions. Much of what is consumed is produced via global value chains contributing to climate change via carbon...

This paper gives an overview of different methodologies related to value chain analysis in the context of environment and trade research. Four major fields of methodologies are identified: Accounting of input-output flows, general computable equilibrium models, econometrics, and global commodity...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Jan A. van der Linden and Jan Oosterhaven (1995), 'European Community Intercountry Input-Output Relations: Construction Method and Main Results for 1965-85', Economic Systems Research, 7 (3), 249-69 2 -- 2. Bo Meng, Yaxiong Zhang and Satoshi Inomata...