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Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

International Journal of the Commons
Volume 18 (2024): Issue 1
By: Chris de Bont and  Lowe Börjeson  
Open Access
|Feb 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1313 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 20, 2023
Accepted on: Jan 11, 2024
Published on: Feb 1, 2024
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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Keywords:
groundwater,
governance,
Africa,
water,
knowledge

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