Environmental justice consequences of the UK's Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) system

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 86, Issue , 2006, Pages 175-183

  Gegisian, I ^a   Grey, M ^a   Irwin, J ^b   Longhurst, J W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs); Environmental justice; Local air quality management; Social equity

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; MITIGATION;

EID: 36148965142     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/AIR06018     Document Type: Article

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