Quality of life in urban-classified and rural-classified English local authority areas

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 683-702

  Campanera, Josep M ^a   Higgins, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY APPROACH; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79955421650     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a43450     Document Type: Article

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