Zone design in public health policy

GIS for Sustainable Development

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 246-247

  Daras, Konstantinos ^a   Alvanides, Seraphim ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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