Rising waters, sinking land?: Environmental change and development in Bangladesh

South Asia in a Globalising World: A Reconstructed Regional Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 51-77

  Bradnock, Robert W ^a   Saunders, Patricia L ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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