Healthy land? An examination of the area-level association between brownfield land and morbidity and mortality in England

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 433-454

  Bambra, Clare ^a   Robertson, Steve ^a   Kasim, Adetayo ^a   Smith, Joe ^a   Cairns Nagi, Joanne Marie ^a   Copeland, Alison ^a   Finlay, Nina ^a   Johnson, Karen ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Environment; Neighbourhood; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894573753     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a46105     Document Type: Article

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