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Institutional Contexts and Policy Discourses: A Case of Water Quality Governance in Lake Erie Basin

By: Bereket Isaac and  Rob C. de Loë  
Open Access
|Apr 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1057 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 25, 2020
Accepted on: Feb 12, 2021
Published on: Apr 1, 2021
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