Historical trends in China's virtual water trade

Water International

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-90

  Liu, Junguo ^a   Zehnder, Alexander J B ^b,c   Yang, Hong ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crop water requirement; Food trade; Water scarcity; Water value

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849008486     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060708691966     Document Type: Article

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