Assessing awareness of water quality: Comparing convenience and random samples

Journal of Extension

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Prokopy, Linda Stalker ^a   Molloy, Alicia ^a   Thompson, Aaron ^a   Emmert, Don ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tippecanoe County Soil and Water Conservation District   (United States)

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