Chapter 23 Managing Smoke from Wildfires and Prescribed Burning in Southern Australia

Developments in Environmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 535-550

  Wain, Alan ^a   Mills, Graham ^a   McCaw, Lachlan ^a   Brown, Timothy ^a  

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EID: 51949099828     PISSN: 14748177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-8177(08)00023-5     Document Type: Review

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