The market to meet the domestic and foreign demands may have distinct decoupling degrees of GDP and consumption water footprint (CWF). Based on the CWF and virtual water trade balance, this study investigates the decoupling of GDP and CWF in the Brazilian economy by decomposing the total into...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an alternative viewpoint to better manage the global natural resources using the case of soybean international market as a baseline and water as the natural resource, although the product and natural resource could be any other....