A protracted age of oil: pipelines, refineries and quiet conflict

Local Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 834-851

  Widener, Patricia ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate justice community; community activism; environmental justice

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; FOSSIL FUEL; OIL PIPELINE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; REFINING INDUSTRY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 84883474799     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2012.738655     Document Type: Article

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