Untangling ignorance in environmental risk assessment

Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 215-233

  Frickel, Scott ^a   Edwards, Michelle ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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