Development and environment: The case of rural industrialization and small-town growth in China

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Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 204-209

  Bradbury, Ian ^a,b,c   Kirkby, Richard ^a,b,d   Guanbao, Shen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RURAL INDUSTRIALISATION; SMALL TOWN GROWTH; TAX INSTRUMENT; TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE ENTERPRISE;

CHINA;

EID: 0030446207     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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15. Acknowledgements. Giles Brown and John Boyle provided helpful comments on the manuscript. Sandra Mather prepared the map. Financial support for research in China, provided by the University of Liverpool and the British Council, is gratefully acknowledged.
16. First submitted 23 December 1994. Accepted for publication 29 March, 1995.