Transboundary pollution: Principles, policy and practice

Transboundary Pollution: Evolving Issues of International Law and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 11-35

  Redgwell, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84942541130     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781784715793.00009     Document Type: Chapter

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21. This section draws upon Catherine Redgwell and Lavanya Rajamani, 'Energy Underground: What's International Law Got to Do with It?' in Donald N Zillman, Aileen McHarg, Adrian Bradbrook and Lila Barrera-Hernandez (eds), The Law of Energy Underground: Understanding New Developments in Subsurface Production, Transmission, and Storage (Oxford: Oxford University Press
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