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Pollution prevention pays

Duncan S. Laurence

Pollution prevention pays

policies, problems and prospects.

by Duncan S. Laurence

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Published by University ofEast Anglia in Norwich .
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Thesis (Ph.D), University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, 1988.

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