Choking on modernity: A human ecology of air pollution

Social Problems

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 282-300

  York, Richard ^a   Rosa, Eugene A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental demography; Households; STIRPAT; Structural human ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860691527     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2012.59.2.282     Document Type: Article

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