Assessing regional and global water footprints for the UK
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a Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom b Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), School of the Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom c Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States d Electricity Policy Research Group, Judge Management School, University of Cambridge, CB2 1AG, United Kingdom e Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 9EP, United Kingdom
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