Health And Peri-Urban Natural Resource Production

Environment & Urbanization

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-106

  Birley, Martin H ^a   Lock, Karen ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Stockport Health Authority   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; PERIURBAN AREA; RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0031845988     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095624789801000120     Document Type: Article

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