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Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action Cover

Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action

International Journal of the Commons
Volume 18 (2024): Issue 1
By: Adam Doneo and  Elisabeth Conrad  
Open Access
|Feb 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1258 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 7, 2023
Accepted on: Nov 6, 2023
Published on: Feb 1, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
aquifer,
common pool resources,
Q methodology,
social-ecological systems,
water,
collective action,
Malta

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