Water marginalization at the urban fringe: Environmental justice and urban political ecology across the North-South divide

Urban Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 403-423

  Ranganathan, Malini ^a   Balazs, Carolina ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

provincializing urbanism; right to water; transnational comparison; traveling theory; urban informality; urban periphery

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; POVERTY; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN POLITICS;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929291142     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2015.1005414     Document Type: Article

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