Water as Foe, Water as Friend: Lessons from Bengal's Millennium Flood

Journal of South Asian Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-49

  Chapman, Graham P ^a   Rudra, Kalyan ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b National Flood Disaster Management Core Group   (India)

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EID: 84875524938     PISSN: 09731741     EISSN: 09731733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097317410600200102     Document Type: Article

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