Virtual water consumption calculation and analysis of Gansu province in 2000

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 861-869

  Xu, Zhongmin ^a,b   Long, Aihua ^a   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gansu; Virtual water; Virtual water strategy; Virtual water trade

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU;

EID: 2342484383     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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