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High-Efficiency Irrigation: Local Water Users’ Responses to the Modernization of Village Irrigation Technology and Government Control in China Cover

High-Efficiency Irrigation: Local Water Users’ Responses to the Modernization of Village Irrigation Technology and Government Control in China

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|Feb 2024

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