Virtual water scarcity risk to the global trade system

• Main Authors: Qu, Shen, Liang, Sai, Konar, Megan, Zhu, Zeqi, Chiu, Anthony S.F., Jia, Xiaoping, Xu, Ming
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Water-supply; International trade—Environmental aspects; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3599; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/4601/type/native/viewcontent/acs.est.7b04309
• Institution: De La Salle University

Local water scarcity risk (LWSR, meaning potential economic output losses in water-using sectors due to physical water scarcity) can be transmitted to downstream economies through the globalized supply chains. To understand the vulnerability of the global economy to water scarcity, we examine the im...