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Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems Cover

Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems

By: Steven M. Smith  
Open Access
|Mar 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1112 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 28, 2021
Accepted on: Jan 14, 2022
Published on: Mar 3, 2022
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