Equity of access to public parks in birmingham, england

Advances in Environmental Research. Volume 13

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 237-256

  Jones, Andrew P ^a   Brainard, Julii ^a   Bateman, Ian J ^a   Lovett, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Deprivation; Environmental equity; Ethnicity; Urban parks

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

ACCESSIBILITY; DEPRIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY; ETHNICITY; URBAN PARKS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 77953736834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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