Dog waste, wasted dogs: The contribution of human-dog relations to the political ecology of Australian urban space

Geographical Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 355-364

  Instone, Lesley ^a   Sweeney, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal geography; Dogs; More than human space; Urban nature; Urban political ecology; Waste

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84926170660     PISSN: 17455863     EISSN: 17455871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12059     Document Type: Article

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