Risk assessment as a tool to explore sustainable development issues: Lessons from the Australian coal industry

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 607-619

  Evans, Robin ^a   Brereton, David ^a   Joy, Jim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Department of Mining Safety ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Coal mining; Impact analysis; Opportunity analysis; Risk assessment; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547623525     PISSN: 14668297     EISSN: 17415241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2007.014089     Document Type: Article

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