The promotion of access legislation - A developing country perspective from Ghana

Building and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 253-258

  Hagan, Essel Ben ^a   Wellington, Henry N A ^b  

^a CSIR Building Road Research Institute   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ACCESS LEGISLATION; ACCESSIBILITY;

URBAN PLANNING;

ACCESS PROVISION; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISABLED POPULATION; DISABLED POPULATON; PLANNING LEGISLATION; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 0041761345     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(97)84479-4     Document Type: Article

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