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Chapter 3 details how working-class people in the UK are more likely to experience environmental deprivation, for example, in terms of air pollution, transport, proximity to landfill sites, flood risk, food poverty, fuel poverty and access to green space.
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Bell, K. (2020). Carrying the Environmental Burdens. In: Working-Class Environmentalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29519-6_3
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