Water resource decoupling in the MENA through food trade as a mechanism for circumventing national water scarcity
This paper explores the trends driving the growing demand for food imports to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region through the lens of ‘decoupling’. The analysis deploys a water-specific model of the general idea of resource decoupling to analyse the role and potential of food and virtual wate...
Main Author: | Gilmont, M |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2015
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