Legal aspects related to the effect of underground mining close to the site entered into the list of potential Natura 2000 network areas

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 217-224

  Marandi, Andres ^a   Veinla, Hannes ^b   Karro, Enn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Natura 2000 sites; Natura assessment; Oil shale; Pre selected Natura sites; Underground mining; Water balance; Wetland protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894247855     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.01.003     Document Type: Review

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