Urban waste pollution in the Korle Lagoon, Accra, Ghana

Environmentalist

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 301-309

  Boadi, Kwasi Owusu ^a   Kuitunen, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Freshwater pollution; Ghana; Korle Lagoon

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL WASTE; URBAN POLLUTION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

GHANA;

EID: 0036889561     PISSN: 02511088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020706728569     Document Type: Article

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