Meeting social challenges in developing sustainable environmental infrastructures in east African cities

Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-30

  Oosterveer, Peter ^a   Spaargaren, Gert ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84887144723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3721-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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