Key policy implications of the health effects of floods

Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 207-223

  Penning Rowsell, Edmund ^a   Tapsell, Sue ^a   Wilson, Theresa ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748469822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28862-7_20     Document Type: Chapter

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