GIScience, environmental justice, & estimating populations at risk: The case of landfills in Wales

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-76

  Higgs, Gary ^a   Langford, Mitch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dasymetric mapping; Environmental justice; Geographic information systems (GIS); Landfill sites; Population estimation modelling

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GIS; LANDFILL; MAPPING METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58649100472     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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