Empowering communities in the peri-urban areas of Colombo

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-110

  Dayaratne, Ranjith ^a   Samarawickrama, Raja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

^b Municipal Veterinary Department   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERIURBAN AREA;

EID: 0037844927     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1630/095624703101286574     Document Type: Article

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