Community-based waste management strategies: Peri-urban interface, Kumasi, Ghana

The Peri-Urban Interface: Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 231-245

  Adam Bradford, Abdullah ^b   McGregor, Duncan ^a   Simon, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal Holloway University of London ^*

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EID: 84925772119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849775878     Document Type: Chapter

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