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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Main Authors: Tariq Ali, Wei Xie, Anfeng Zhu, Kyle Frankel Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe9ec