Environmental Mis-Assessment, Development and Mining in Orissa, India

Development and Change

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 101-123

  Bedi, Heather P ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARGINALIZATION; MINING; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; REFINING INDUSTRY;

INDIA; ODISHA;

EID: 84872368180     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12000     Document Type: Article

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