Expecting a Boomtown? Exploring potential housing - related impacts of large scale resource developments in Darwin

Human Geographies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-42

  Ennis, Gretchen ^a   Finlayson, Mary ^a   Speering, Glen ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boomtown; Darwin; Housing; Resource development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878293835     PISSN: 18436587     EISSN: 20672284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5719/hgeo.2013.71.33     Document Type: Article

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