Sub-Saharan African urbanisation and global environmental change1

Africa’s urban revolution

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 35-59

  Parnell, Susan ^a   Walawege, Ruwani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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