The Role of the changing built environment in shaping our shape

Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 131-149

  Giles Corti, Billie ^a   Robertson Wilson, Jennifer ^b   Wood, Lisa ^a   Falconer, Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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