Environmental injustice in the Paso del Norte

Projections

Volumn , Issue 8, 2008, Pages 156-171

  Collins, Timothy W ^a   Grineski, Sara E ^a   Flores, Martha I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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