Achieving the 'good life': why some people want latrines in rural Benin.

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Published in Soc Sci Med on June 09, 2005

Authors

Marion W Jenkins1, Val Curtis

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA. mwjenkins@ucdavis.edu

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