The policy relevance of virtual water can be enhanced by considering comparative advantages

By D. Wichelns. 2004

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Satisfying future water demands for agriculture (2010, background): “** Sum of cereal exports. of domestic economic objectives and political considerations (Wichelns, 2004).”
Water saving through international trade of agricultural products (2005, unknown): “EGU concentrate or specialize in the production of goods and services for which they have a comparative advantage, while importing goods and services for which they have a comparative disadvantage (Wichelns, 2001, 2004).”
Rethinking Agricultural Trade Relationships in an Era of Globalization (2015, background): “In some cases, embodied irrigation water for exports flows from countries with relatively high per capita water availabilities to more water-limited countries (figure 4), which might reflect a comparative advantage in embodied irrigation based on relative water availabilities (Wichelns 2004).”
Water scarcity and the impact of improved irrigation management: a computable general equilibrium analysis (2011, background): “Wichelns (2004) showed that this is not always true when only resource endowments are considered ignoring production technologies or opportunity costs of water and other limiting factors.”
“Virtual water”: An unfolding concept in integrated water resources management (2007, background): “On the other hand, Wichelns [2003, 2005] argued that virtual water is merely a metaphor, not a concept because it addresses only the water endowment, but not the technology of production or the opportunity costs of Figure 3. Water resources availability with monthly intervals and the 95% predictio”
Human appropriation of natural capital: A comparison of ecological footprint and water footprint analysis (2009, background): “An important question all the time is where and how nations or the global society as a whole can save water (Hoekstra, 2003; Oki and Kanae, 2004; De Fraiture et al. 2004; Wichelns, 2004; Hoekstra and Hung, 2005; Chapagain et al., 2006a).”
The water footprints of Morocco and the Netherlands: Global water use as a result of domestic consumption of agricultural commodities (2007, background): “Trade, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in December 2002 (Hoekstra, 2003) and the special session on Virtual Water Trade and Geopolitics during the Third World Water Forum in Japan, March 2003, the interest in the concepts of virtual water, water footprints and global water saving has strongly increa”
Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “Water is found to induce an international specialization of production and is a source of comparative advantage among countries (Wichelns 2004, Debaere 2014).”
The Global Dimension of Water Governance: Why the River Basin Approach Is No Longer Sufficient and Why Cooperative Action at Global Level Is Needed (2010, background): “This theory, known as the theory of comparative advantage, has been proposed as a useful analytical tool to study the economic attractiveness of virtual water import for nations that have comparatively little water and of virtual water export for nations that have comparatively abundant water resour”
The global component of freshwater demand and supply: an assessment of virtual water flows between nations as a result of trade in agricultural and industrial products (2008, background): “As a consequence, international virtual water trade can most times not at all or only partly be explained on the basis of relative water abundances or shortages (De Fraiture et al. 2004, Wichelns 2004).”
Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change (2010, background): “that are traded in international markets (Wichelns, 2004).”
Going against the flow: A critical analysis of inter-state virtual water trade in the context of India’s National River Linking Program (2009, background): “As a consequence, international virtual water transfers can not at all or only partially be explained on the basis of relative water abundances or shortages (De Fraiture et al., 2004; Wichelns, 2004 ).”
Virtual Water: A Helpful Perspective, but not a Sufficient Policy Criterion (2010, background): “The virtual water perspective does not consider opportunity costs, which must be evaluated to determine the optimal allocation of scarce resources ( Wichelns 2004 ).”