Poverty and the environmental health agenda in a low-income city: The case of the greater accra metropolitan area (gama), ghana

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 132-155

  Songsore, Jacob ^a   McGranahan, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84884191115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849772471     Document Type: Chapter

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