Colliding intervention in the spatial management of street-based injecting and drug-related litter within settings of public convenience (UK)

Space and Polity

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-94

  Parkin, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

drug related litter; enabling environments; harm reduction; qualitative research; spatial management; street based injecting drug use

Indexed keywords

DRUG USER; ETHNOGRAPHY; LITTER; PUBLIC SPACE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85027930644     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: 14701235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2015.1077548     Document Type: Article

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