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Local perceptions of reservoir impacts: A test of vested interests

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Salaries and research support provided by State and Federal funds appropriated to the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center via the Hatch 645 project. The authors thank Lyndal K. Napier and Sharolyn Back for secretarial support during the conduct of this writing project. The authors also thank anonymous journal reviewers and the journal editor for helpful comments which improved the original draft of this paper.

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Napier, T.L., Carter, M.V. & Bryant, E.G. Local perceptions of reservoir impacts: A test of vested interests. Am J Commun Psychol 14, 17–37 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00923248

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