Improving urban water and sanitation services: Health, access and boundaries

Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 106-131

  Bostoen, Kristof ^a   Kolsky, Pete ^b   Hunt, Caroline ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Energy and Water Department   (Australia)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84925796023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849772471     Document Type: Chapter

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