ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Human Health and Environmental Inequalities
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Environmental justice: human health and environmental inequalities.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Public Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0163-7525,1545-2093
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.27.021405.102124