A political ecology of scale in urban air pollution monitoring

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 502-517

  Buzzelli, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Ecology; GIS scale; Political; Urban; Vancouver

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GIS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN POLLUTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 51749095419     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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