The water footprint of humanity
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...Mekonnen and Hoekstra Sci. Adv....
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...Average monthly blue water footprints at a 5 × 5 arc min resolution for the period 1996–2005 were derived from Mekonnen and Hoekstra (40, 41) and were aggregated to a 30 × 30 arc min resolution....
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...E-mail: m.m.mekonnen@utwente.nl Mekonnen and Hoekstra Sci. Adv....
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...In the latter two countries, it concerns all people in the country, which puts those Mekonnen and Hoekstra Sci. Adv....
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...Only in times wherein water demand and availability Mekonnen and Hoekstra Sci. Adv....
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...For industry and domestic water use, assumptions were made based on Hoekstra and Mekonnen (2012)....
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...…et al. 2013; Curran et al. 2014 Water use Increase of water consumed Water consumption potential (WCP) m3 water-eq consumed Döll and Siebert 2002; Hoekstra and Mekonnen 2012 Mineral resource scarcity Increase of ore extracted Surplus ore potential (SOP) kg Cu-eq Vieira et al. 2016a Fossil…...
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...It is estimated that 74 % of all freshwater appropriated by humans comes from the soil (Hoekstra and Mekonnen, 2012)....
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...Agriculture amounts to 92 % of the globe’s freshwater use, far ahead of industrial and domestic usage (Hoekstra and Mekonnen, 2012)....
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"The water footprint of humanity" refers background in this paper
...The WFs within nations related to water use in livestock farming were obtained from Mekonnen and Hoekstra (23)....
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...The WFs within nations related to crop production were obtained from Mekonnen and Hoekstra (21, 22, 36), who estimated the global WF of crop production with a crop water use model at a 5 × 50 spatial resolution....
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...The WFs of agricultural products were taken from Mekonnen and Hoekstra (5, 6)....
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"The water footprint of humanity" refers background in this paper
...The WFs within nations related to water use in livestock farming were obtained from Mekonnen and Hoekstra (23)....
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...The WFs within nations related to crop production were obtained from Mekonnen and Hoekstra (21, 22, 36), who estimated the global WF of crop production with a crop water use model at a 5 × 50 spatial resolution....
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...The WFs of agricultural products were taken from Mekonnen and Hoekstra (5, 6)....
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"The water footprint of humanity" refers background or methods in this paper
...An earlier global study on the WFs of nations was carried out by Hoekstra and Hung (16); another, much more comprehensive study, was done by Hoekstra and Chapagain and reported in a number of subsequent publications (8, 17–20)....
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...Finally, we apply the bottom-up approach in estimating the WF of national consumption of agricultural products, which is less sensitive to trade data than the top-down approach that was applied in the earlier studies (8, 16)....
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...Hoekstra AY, Hung PQ (2002) Virtual water trade: A quantification of virtual water flows between nations in relation to international crop trade....
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...Hoekstra AY, Hung PQ (2005) Globalisation of water resources: International virtual water flows in relation to crop trade....
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...The current study is more comprehensive and detailed than the earlier two global WF studies (8, 16)....
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