Social constructions of nature in urban Singapore

Southeast Asian Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 402-423

  Kong, Lily ^a   Yeoh, Brenda S A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL APPROACH; NATURE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; URBAN PERSPECTIVE;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0030417199     PISSN: 05638682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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