Renting over troubled waters: An urban political ecology of rental housing

Geographical Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 365-376

  Mee, Kathleen J ^a   Instone, Lesley ^a   Williams, Miriam ^a   Palmer, Jane ^b   Vaughan, Nicola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ACT Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Rental housing; Sustainability; Urban political ecology; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926174402     PISSN: 17455863     EISSN: 17455871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12058     Document Type: Article

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