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What is Fair in Groundwater Allocation? Distributive and Procedural Fairness Perceptions of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

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Pages 1508-1529 | Received 01 Jul 2019, Accepted 08 Mar 2020, Published online: 25 Apr 2020

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