A literature review of sustainable consumption and production: A comparative analysis in developed and developing economies

C Wang, P Ghadimi, MK Lim, ML Tseng - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Sustainable consumption and production is identified as one of the essential requirements
for sustainable development. Due to different economic conditions and socio-cultural factors …

The impact of water quality on GDP growth: Evidence from around the world

J Russ, E Zaveri, S Desbureaux, R Damania… - Water Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Declining water quality can impact the economy in various ways. Impacts can be found in
the health sector, where labor productivity can be affected, in agriculture, where the quality …

Insights into water sustainability from a grey water footprint perspective in an irrigated region of the Yellow River Basin

J Chen, Y Gao, H Qian, H Jia, Q Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Water sustainability is imperative for socio-economic development. The grey water footprint
(GWF) is a useful indicator for quantifying how human activities influence freshwater …

Mapping multiple water pollutants across China using the grey water footprint

H Feng, F Sun, Y Liu, P Zeng, L Deng, Y Che - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The primary pollutants and pollution levels of surface water present spatial and temporal
changes. This study quantified the grey water footprint (GWF) and surface water pollution …

Pharmaceutical grey water footprint: Accounting, influence of wastewater treatment plants and implications of the reuse

I Martínez-Alcalá, F Pellicer-Martínez… - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Emerging pollutants, including pharmaceutical compounds, are producing water pollution
problems around the world. Some pharmaceutical pollutants, which mainly reach …

Towards improvement of grey water footprint assessment: With an illustration for global maize cultivation

W Liu, M Antonelli, X Liu, H Yang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
The grey water footprint refers to the volume of water that is required to assimilate polluted
water. It reflects the intensity of water pollution caused by water use for human activities. This …

Ossified materialism: introduction to the special volume on absolute reductions in materials throughput and emissions

L Akenji, M Bengtsson, R Bleischwitz, A Tukker… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2016 - Elsevier
Drawing from papers in this special volume (SV), this introductory paper on absolute
reductions argues that the magnitude, scope and urgency of the sustainability challenge …

Income impacts on household consumption's grey water footprint in China

X Liao, L Chai, Y Liang - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Urbanization is accompanied by growing household consumption and changing
consumption patterns, with both having impacts on the life-cycle water pollution generated …

A meso-level water use assessment in the Mediterranean agriculture. Multiple applications of water footprint for some traditional crops

T Crovella, A Paiano, G Lagioia - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Currently, agriculture uses about 70–80% of global water resources and, in the
Mediterranean area, it accounts for the high pressure of freshwater demand. This study …

Accounting global grey water footprint from both consumption and production perspectives

X Zhao, X Liao, B Chen, MR Tillotson, W Guo… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Grey water footprint (GWF) accounting has previously been conducted at the global level
using a bottom-up approach but lacking detailed industrial information. Here we applied a …