Consistently unreliable: Oil spill data and transparency discourse
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Bioremediation of Oil Spill
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عنوان ژورنال: The Extractive Industries and Society
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2214-790X
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2020.04.009