Policy, Politics and Sustainable Transport: The Nature of Labour's Dilemma

A New Deal for Transport?: The UK's Struggle with the Sustainable Transport Agenda

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-29

  Docherty, Iain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Town Planning Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic sun exposure; Cumulative sun exposure; Economy; Individual susceptibility; Intermittent sun exposure; Labour government; Melanoma; Politics; Social groups; Society

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EID: 84889283306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773734.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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