Urban sustainability and global environmental change: Reflections for an urban agenda

The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 149-164

  Sánchez Rodríguez, Roberto ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 84925802958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849773157     Document Type: Chapter

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