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"copyrightText": "Citation: UNEP-WCMC (2020). Human pressures on biodiversity, water and carbon. Cambridge, UK.References: Karger, D.N. et al. (2017) Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas. Scientific Data 4, 170122. doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122. Mulligan, M. (2019) Human footprint on water quality (% contamination). Model results from the Waterworld version 2 policy support system (non commercial-use). http://www.policysupport.org/waterworld [prepared by user mark.mulligan_kcl.ac.uk]Mulligan, M. (2013). WaterWorld: a self-parameterising, physically based model for application in data-poor but problem-rich environments globally. Hydrology research 44, 5; 748-769.Venter, O., Sanderson, E. W., Magrach, A., et al. (2016). Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009. Scientific Data, 3, 160067. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.67",
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