Virtual water accounting for the globalized world economy: National water footprint and international virtual water trade

Chen, Zhanming; Chen, G.Q.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.07.024

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“…This is the case for There have been many studies that consider distributional issues related to resource use and related ecological pressures. The topics and indicators investigated range from the distribution of CO 2 emissions (Strazicich and List, 2003;Nguyen Van, 2005;Aldy, 2006;Padilla and Serrano, 2006;Duro and Padilla, 2006;Ezcurra, 2007;Duro and Padilla, 2008;Criado and Grether, 2011;Cantore, 2011;Steinberger et al 2012), to energy efficiency distribution (Alcantara and Duro, 2004;Miketa and Mulder, 2005;Duro et al 2014), of the ecological footprint (Dongjing et al 2010, White, 2007Wu andXu, 2010, Duro andTeixidó-Figueras 2013;Teixidó-Figueras and Duro 2014, 2015a, 2015b, material flow indicators Giljum et al, 2014a;Wiedmann et al, 2015), water (Chen and Chen, 2013;Hoekstra and Mekonnen, 2012) and land (Bruckner et al, 2015;Weinzettel et al, 2013;Yu et al, 2013). These analyses provide information on how resource use is currently shared among nations.…”

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International inequality of environmental pressures: Decomposition and comparative analysis

Teixidó-Figueras

Steinberger

Krausmann

et al. 2016

Ecological Indicators

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Natural resource scarcity is no longer merely a remote possibility and governments increasingly seek information about the global distribution of resource use and related environmental pressures. This paper presents an international distributional analysis of natural resource use indicators. These encompass both territorial (national production) and footprint (national consumption) indicators for land-related pressures (human appropriation of net primary production, HANPP, and embodied HANPP), for material use (domestic material extraction and consumption and material footprint), and for carbon emissions (territorial carbon emissions and carbon footprints). Our main question is "What, both from a territorial and a footprint perspective, are the main driving factors of international environmental inequality?". We show that, for the environmental indicators we studied, inequality tends to be higher for footprint indicators than for territorial ones. The exception is land use intensity (as measured by HANPP), for which geographical drivers mainly determine the distribution pattern. The international distribution of material consumption is mainly a result of economic drivers whereas, for domestic extraction, demographic drivers can explain almost half of the distribution pattern. Finally, carbon emissions are the environmental pressure that shows the highest international inequality because of the larger contribution of economic drivers.

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International inequality of environmental pressures: Decomposition and comparative analysis

Teixidó-Figueras

Steinberger

Krausmann

et al. 2016

Ecological Indicators

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“…This may be exemplifi ed best in the context of water use, where the term 'virtual' has been used widely (e.g. Chen and Chen 2013 ;Dalin et al 2012 ;Orlowsky et al 2014 ). The virtual water is not actually physically embodied in a traded product -yet the term 'embodied' is widely used in the literature to describe indirect impacts.…”

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Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Wiedmann

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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The steep and unprecedented growth of globalisation and trade over the last few decades has led to accelerated economic activity with mixed outcomes. Continued economic growth and alleviation of poverty in many countries has been accompanied with an overall increase and shifting of environmental pressures between countries. Industrial ecology research has contributed decisively to the knowledge around impacts in trade. This chapter summarises the latest empirical fi ndings on global change instigated by trade, discusses new methodological developments and refl ects on the sustainability of globalised production and consumption. Signifi cant proportions of up to 64 % of total environmental, social and economic impacts can be linked to international trade. Impacts embodied in trade have grown much more rapidly than their total global counterparts. Policies aimed at increasing the sustainability of production and consumption need to go beyond domestic regulation and seek international cooperation to target production practices for exports worldwide.

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“…At last, a non-linear objective function is specified and it removes the calibration constraints and reproduces the base-year activity levels, closely or exactly, as unconstrained solution values to verify model calibration. In the literature, some scholars used input-output approach to analyze water allocation and management issues (Zhang et al, 2011;Chen and Chen, 2013;Han et al, 2014).…”

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Urbanization, agricultural water use, and regional and national crop production in China

Yan

Wang

Huang

2015

Ecological Modelling

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a b s t r a c tThe overall goal of this paper is to analyze the impacts of the urbanization on regional and national agricultural production through its impact on water use in agriculture in China. Given the historical trend of water use in agriculture and its correlation with urbanization, the change in agricultural water use due to urbanization is estimated. Then the impacts of this change on regional crop production are simulated based on the China Water Simulation Model (CWSM). Within CWSM, a positive mathematical programming (PMP) optimizes water allocation among crops and between irrigated and rainfed areas within a crop in each of ten river basins in China. The results show that water use in China has an obvious increasing trend, particularly in the industrial and domestic sectors, while the share of water use in agricultural sector has been dropping. A 1-percentage-point increase in urbanization can result in a 0.47 percentage-point decline in share of water use. Based on the model simulation, this will lead to the further decrease of irrigated areas and the increase of rainfed areas at both the national and river basin levels, particularly for water intensive crops (such as rice and wheat). Accordingly, average yields and total production will also decrease. A river basin with large production of either rice or wheat (or both) decreases more in irrigated area as urban area expands. Adaptation measures are recommended for both authorities and farmers to ensure food security, such as providing incentive for farmers to adopt water saving technology, implementing appropriate institutional and policy innovations (e.g., water use association, water pricing and water use rights).

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Virtual water accounting for the globalized world economy: National water footprint and international virtual water trade

Cited by 279 publications

References 24 publications

International inequality of environmental pressures: Decomposition and comparative analysis

International inequality of environmental pressures: Decomposition and comparative analysis

Impacts Embodied in Global Trade Flows

Urbanization, agricultural water use, and regional and national crop production in China

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