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Wei Jiang and Rainer Marggraf
Freshwater is fundamental for all aspects of human well-being and sustainable development. The supply of freshwater resource largely depends on the natural water cycle, leading to extremely unequal distribution over the world. This uneven distribution an...
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Weixuan Wang, Jan F. Adamowski, Chunfang Liu, Yujia Liu, Yongkai Zhang, Xueyan Wang, Haohai Su and Jianjun Cao
The concept of virtual water, as a new approach for addressing water shortage and safety issues, can be applied to support sustainable development in water-scarce regions. Using the input-output method, the direct and the complete water use coefficients ...
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Megan Konar and Landon Marston
This paper commemorates the influence of Arjen Y. Hoekstra on water footprint research of the United States. It is part of the Special Issue ?In Memory of Prof. Arjen Y. Hoekstra?. Arjen Y. Hoekstra both inspired and enabled a community of scholars to wo...
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Nikolaos Mellios, Jason F. L. Koopman and Chrysi Laspidou
An analysis of virtual crop water export through international trade is conducted for Greece, downscaled to the River Basin District (RBD) level, in order to identify critical ?hotspots? of localized water shortage in the country. A computable general eq...
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Jing Liu, Yu Zhang and Zhongbo Yu
If products were traded from regions with relatively high water productivity to regions with relatively low water productivity, water saving could be achieved. In this study, two indices—physical water-saving efficiency (volume of water savings per...
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Huiping Huang, Xinsheng Li, Lianhai Cao, Dongdong Jia, Junlong Zhang, Chunying Wang and Yuping Han
In the globalized world, water utilization and carbon emissions are two important indicators for water and energy resources evaluation. This paper investigates the inter-sectoral linkage and external trade of virtual water (water embodied in products) an...
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Huixiao Wang and Yaxue Yang
Water footprint has become a common method to study the water resources utilization in recent years. By using input?output analysis and dilution theory, the internal water footprint, blue water footprint and grey water footprint of China from 2002 to 201...
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Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Ashok K. Chapagain and Pieter R. Van Oel
This special issue is a collection of recent papers in the field of Water Footprint Assessment (WFA), an emerging area of research focused on the analysis of freshwater use, scarcity, and pollution in relation to consumption, production, and trade. As in...
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Fatemeh Karandish and Arjen. Y. Hoekstra
Iran?s focus on food self-sufficiency has led to an emphasis on increasing water volumes available for irrigation with little attention to water use efficiency, and no attention at all to the role of consumption and trade. To better understand the develo...
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A. Ertug Ercin and Arjen Y. Hoekstra
This study develops water footprint scenarios for Europe for 2050, at the country level, based on projections regarding population and economic growth, production and trade patterns, consumption patterns (diets and bioenergy use) and technological develo...
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