Environmental considerations for common burial site selection after pandemic events

Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 87-101

  Williams, Anna ^a   Temple, Tracey ^a   Pollard, Simon J ^a   Jones, Robert J A ^a   Ritz, Karl ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84919841423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9204-6_7     Document Type: Chapter

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