Information Collection, Access, and Dissemination to Support Evidence-Based Shale Gas Policies

Energy Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 977-987

  Gamper Rabindran, Shanti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Information disclosure; Regulation; Risk management; Shale gas

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SHALE GAS; WATER POLLUTION;

BENEFITS AND COSTS; DATA COLLECTION; GAS DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION COLLECTIONS; INFORMATION DISCLOSURE; PRIVACY CONCERNS; REGULATION; SOCIAL BENEFITS;

SHALE;

EID: 84991288264     PISSN: 21944288     EISSN: 21944296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ente.201402114     Document Type: Article

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