Environmental affordances and children in post-conflict Belfast

Space and Polity

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-79

  Murtagh, Brendan ^a   Murphy, Aislinga ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INNER CITY AREA; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SEGREGATION;

BELFAST [NORTHERN IRELAND]; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79953884063     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: 14701235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2011.567903     Document Type: Article

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