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The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
Volume 24, 2019 - Issue 8
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Questioning the local: environmental regulation, shale gas extraction, and the politics of scale

Pages 777-789 | Received 30 Jun 2018, Accepted 28 Jun 2019, Published online: 19 Jul 2019

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