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Unruly pathogens : eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge. / Fish, Rob; Winter, Michael; Oliver, David M. et al.
In: Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3, 05.2009, p. 281-296.

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Fish, R, Winter, M, Oliver, DM, Chadwick, D, Selfa, T, Heathwaite, L & Hodgson, C 2009, 'Unruly pathogens : eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge.', Environmental Science and Policy, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 281-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2009.02.002

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Fish R, Winter M, Oliver DM, Chadwick D, Selfa T, Heathwaite L et al. Unruly pathogens : eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge. Environmental Science and Policy. 2009 May;12(3):281-296. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2009.02.002

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Fish, Rob ; Winter, Michael ; Oliver, David M. et al. / Unruly pathogens : eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge. In: Environmental Science and Policy. 2009 ; Vol. 12, No. 3. pp. 281-296.

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