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Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), exposure to radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. Extant research that has reported that fracking activity increases the radon levels.
Yanqing Xu, Mounika Sajja, Ashok Kumar
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Energy Reports, 2020 Fracking is a technology used for the extraction of shale gas contained in rocks on the Earth’s surface. The main characteristic of this method is that it consists of injecting pressurized water into the ground, thus creating a series of fractures ...
Carolina Álvarez-Ramos +4 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing recognition that countries around the world must transition to a low‐carbon economy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. One way that decarbonization has been obstructed, we argue, is by fossil fuel firms intentionally conflating their agenda with ‘the people’, evoking notions of national identity, security and ...
Daniel Nyberg +3 more
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Ciencia e Ingeniería Neogranadina, 2018 La contribución de la extracción de gas lutita en la sostenibilidad energética ha sido evalua-da de manera independiente, sin tener en cuenta su relación con la seguridad hídrica ni sus impactos en las fuentes de agua.
Sharel Charry-Ocampo, Anibal J. Perez
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El fracking en Mendoza, una iniciativa al extremo de lo posible
Perfiles Latinoamericanos, 2021 Desde 2017, el gobierno de Mendoza impulsa la explotación de hidrocarburos no convencionales mediante la técnica de fractura hidráulica (fracking), al centro-oeste de Argentina.
Mariano J. Salomone
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Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
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Mizan Law ReviewThe crude oil, gas and energy global setting is rapidly changing owing to the concern for global warming and the quest for alternative renewable and sustainable energy sources.
Kato Gogo Kingston
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Hydraulic fracturing considerations: Insights from analogue models, and its viability in Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal, 2019 Fracking is being considered around the world as a potential method in the hydrocarbons extraction given the increase of production in USA and Canada during the last years with its implementation.
Dilan Arturo Martínez-Sánchez +1 more
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Contaminación físico química en zonas de fracking
Revista Politécnica, 2021 A pesar del consenso científico hacia la necesidad de limitar el calentamiento global, la urgencia por la provisión autónoma de recursos energéticos ha llevado a muchos Estados a autorizar proyectos que aplican técnicas no convencionales de extracción de
María Eugenia Guerrero-Useda
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Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames.
Onna Malou van den Broek +3 more
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