Lake Kivu's methane gas: Natural risk, or source of energy and political security?

Africa Spectrum

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-110

  Doevenspeck, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

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