The costs of globalization: Producing new forms of risk to health and well-being

Risk Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-29

  Hudson, Ray ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic geographies; Environmental pollution; Globalization; Hazard and risk; Health and well being; Neo liberalism; Spaces of regulation; Uneven development

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650248420     PISSN: 14603799     EISSN: 17434637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/rm.2008.13     Document Type: Article

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