Watercourses and discourses: Coalmining in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales

Oceania

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-90

  Connor, Linda ^a   Higginbotham, Nick ^a   Freeman, Sonia ^a   Albrecht, Glenn ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Environment; Hunter Valley; Mining; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 45149107935     PISSN: 00298077     EISSN: 18344461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.2008.tb00029.x     Document Type: Review

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