Economic polarized trends, function and expanded boundaries of the Yangtze Delta Region

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 733-749

  Duan, Xuejun ^a   Yu, Xiaogan ^a   Nipper, Josef ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic Polarized Area; Expanded boundaries; Function; Yangtze Delta Region

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249123443     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-009-0733-5     Document Type: Article

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