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Changes in agricultural virtual water in Central Asia, 1992–2016
- Source :
- Journal of Geographical Sciences. 30:1909-1920
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- In recent years, flows of many rivers and lakes have become reduced in arid and semi-arid regions around the world. The most typical examples of this phenomenon occur in Central Asia, and the reduction of the Aral Sea area is closely related to agricultural water use. However, due to a lack of continuous data in Central Asia spanning many years, “virtual water” is used to evaluate changes in agricultural water use. Based on virtual water theory, 325 kinds of agricultural products in eight categories are selected as the research object, and changes in virtual water are calculated for Central Asia from 1992 to 2016. Results indicate that: (1) The average annual net export of agricultural virtual water (TVWNE) in Central Asia is about 9 billion m3, concentrated in Kazakhstan, whose annual TVWNE reaches 8.1 billion m3. (2) Since 2007, the TVWNE in Central Asia has dropped significantly, with a drop rate of 86%, while the total volume of agricultural virtual water has gradually increased since 1998. (3) The upstream and downstream countries in Central Asia have different characteristics in the change of virtual water quantity.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
business.industry
05 social sciences
Central asia
0507 social and economic geography
Virtual water
01 natural sciences
Arid
Continuous data
Upstream and downstream (DNA)
Geography
Agriculture
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Farm water
Research Object
Water resource management
business
050703 geography
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18619568 and 1009637X
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Geographical Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........608e660e403d1c3c9b05348e1ad177bf