The health implications of fracking

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9919, 2014, Pages 757-758

  Kovats, Sari ^a   Depledge, Michael ^b   Haines, Andy ^a   Fleming, Lora E ^b   Wilkinson, Paul ^a   Shonkoff, Seth B ^c,d   Scovronick, Noah ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c and Engineers for Healthy Energy   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRACKING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OIL AND GAS FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENEWABLE ENERGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GAS, NATURAL; GREAT BRITAIN; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS;

EID: 84896870350     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62700-2     Document Type: Note

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