Accounting for re-exports substantially reduces China’s virtual water demand through agricultural trade
Traditional methods of assessing virtual water (VW) trade usually overestimate the foreign VW used by a country as the imported VW can also be re-exported and used by the countries other than the initial importer. Due to its ability to provide better estimates of transboundary resource use, the glob...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2021-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe9ec |