What's the 'fracking' problem? One word can't say it all

Extractive Industries and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 130-136

  Evensen, Darrick ^a   Jacquet, Jeffrey B ^b   Clarke, Christopher E ^c   Stedman, Richard C ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Energy policy; Hydraulic fracturing; Shale gas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908481196     PISSN: 2214790X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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