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27 - Geothermal Energy and a Future Earth

from Part VII - Future Earth and Risk, Safety and Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2018

Tom Beer
Affiliation:
IUGG Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC)
Jianping Li
Affiliation:
Beijing Normal University
Keith Alverson
Affiliation:
UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre
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Global Change and Future Earth
The Geoscience Perspective
, pp. 364 - 376
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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