Pilgrims, progress, and the political economy of disaster preparedness - the example of the 2013 Uttarakhand flood and Kedarnath disaster

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 5985-5990

  Ziegler, Alan D ^a   Wasson, Robert J ^b   Bhardwaj, Alok ^a   Sundriyal, Y P ^c   Sati, S P ^c   Juyal, Navin ^d   Nautiyal, Vinod ^c   Srivastava, Pradeep ^e   Gillen, Jamie ^a   Saklani, Udisha ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^e WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

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EID: 84920274181     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10349     Document Type: Article

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