Urban environmental challenges and climate change action in Durban, South Africa

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Environment & Urbanization

• Publication date

  2013-09-06

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/0956247813500904
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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