How far are we from possible ideal virtual water transfer? Evidence from assessing vulnerability of global virtual water trade

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 828; p. 154493
• Main Authors: Du, Yueyue, Fang, Kai, Zhao, Dandan, Liu, Qingyan, Xu, Zihan, Peng, Jian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.07.2022
• Subjects: Africa; Central Asia; Commerce; Dehydration; environment; Forecasting; Global water cycle; Global water use sustainability; Humans; international trade; Internationality; issues and policy; multipliers; quantitative analysis; Responsibility sharing; Telecoupling; Virtual water; Vulnerability; water shortages; water stress; Water Supply; Central Asia; Africa; Responsibility sharing; VWT; Global water use sustainability; Vulnerability; Global water cycle; Telecoupling; VC; Virtual water; RWPC; MRIO

With the increasing contradiction between water demand and supply in a telecoupled society where nature and human interplay intensively over distance, virtual water trade (VWT) plays an indispensable role in global water use sustainability. There has been little quantitative analysis of global water...