Hong Kong haze: Air pollution as a social class issue

Asian Survey

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 780-800

  Stern, Rachel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HAZE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOCIAL STATUS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 0344688190     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.2003.43.5.780     Document Type: Article

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