El Mezquital: A community's struggle for development

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-106

  Díaz, Andrés Cabanas ^b   Grant, Emma ^a   Del Cid Vargas, Paula Irene ^b   Velásquez, Verónica Sajbin ^b  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; EMPOWERMENT;

GUATEMALA; GUATEMALA CITY;

EID: 1642602471     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095624780001200107     Document Type: Article

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3. These are available from the Human Settlements Programme, IIED, 3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H ODD, UK.
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7. MONAP - Movimiento Nacional de Pobladores
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