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Part III - Understanding the international coal trade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2015

Mark C. Thurber
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Stanford University, California
Richard K. Morse
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Stanford University, California
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The Global Coal Market
Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies
, pp. 375 - 472
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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