Aboriginal engagement and agreement-making with a rapidly developing resource industry: Coal seam gas development in Australia

Extractive Industries and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 176-188

  Trigger, David ^a   Keenan, Julia ^a   de Rijke, Kim ^a   Rifkin, Will ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Australia; Coal seam gas; Extractive industries; Social performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908476028     PISSN: 2214790X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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