Kosi embankment breach in Nepal: Need for a paradigm shift in responding to floods

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 70-78

  Dixit, Ajaya ^a  

^a Nepal Water Conservation Foundation   (Nepal)

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