A Study on the Sustainable Development of Water, Energy, and Food in China

Lei Jin1, Yuanhua Chang2, Xianwei Ju3

  • 1School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China. jinlei@cup.edu.cn.

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