The Canadian-Alberta tar sands: A case study of state-corporate environmental crime

Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives

Volumn 9781843927983, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-109

  Smandych, Russell ^a   Kueneman, Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843927983     Document Type: Chapter

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