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Case C - Whose Deficit Anyway? Institutional Misunderstanding of Fracking-Sceptical Publics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2019

Esther Turnhout
Affiliation:
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Willemijn Tuinstra
Affiliation:
Open Universiteit
Willem Halffman
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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Environmental Expertise
Connecting Science, Policy and Society
, pp. 90 - 103
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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