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Health in Megacities and Urban Areas

Diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for different trends in the development of megacities and large urban areas. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are themselves changing: On the one hand they are prone to increasing socio-economic vulnerability due to pronounc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Krämer, Alexander (Editor ), Khan, Mobarak Hossain (Editor ), Kraas, Frauke (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Contributions to Statistics
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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