Access to parks for youth as an environmental justice issue: Access inequalities and possible solutions

Buildings

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 69-94

  Rigolon, Alessandro ^a   Flohr, Travis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to play; Environmental justice; Geographic information systems; Park accessibility; Young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919951640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20755309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/buildings4020069     Document Type: Article

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