Estimation of flood damage functions for river basin planning: a case study in Bangladesh

Natural Hazards

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2773-2791

  Yang, Y C Ethan ^a   Ray, Patrick A ^a   Brown, Casey M ^a   Khalil, Abedalrazq F ^b   Yu, Winston H ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Brahmaputra; Flood affected area; Ganges; Meghna; Water level

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922082089     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1459-y     Document Type: Article

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