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Incidental Report No. IR98-1 The Royal Society of Canada, 1998
Atmospheric Change and the North American Transportation Sector: Summary of a Trilateral Workshop
by the Steering Committee on Atmospheric Change and the North American Transportation Sector of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
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