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Rethinking the Concepts of Virtual Water and Water Footprint in Relation to the Production-Consumption Binomial and the Water-Energy Nexus

In the field of Ecological Economics, the need of using physical indicators to analyse economic processes, at the same time they serve as tools in decision making, has been lately highlighted. Virtual Water (VW) and Water Footprint (WF) are two useful indicators in achieving this objective, the firs...

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Binomials
Civil Engineering
Consumption
Decision making
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earth, ocean, space
Ecological monitoring
Economics
Environment
Environmental economics
Exact sciences and technology
Footprints
Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
Hydrogeology
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Hydrology/Water Resources
Hypotheses
Indicators
Literature reviews
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Studies
virtual water
Water and energy nexus
Water consumption
water footprint
Water management
Water resources
Water resources management
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