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Social and Biophysical Context Influences County-level Support for Collaborative Watershed Restoration: Case Study of the Sacramento River, CA, USA

Suzanne Langridge
Ecological Restoration, December 2016, 34 (4) 285-296; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.34.4.285
Suzanne Langridge
Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA, .
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