Disaster mitigation and management for West Bengal, India - An appraisal

Current Science

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 858-864

  Nath, Sankar Kumar ^a   Roy, Debasis ^a   Thingbaijam, Kiran Kumar Singh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Disaster; Management; Mitigation; Natural hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649132059     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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