Intellectual critiques, people’s resistance and inter-riparian contestations: Constraints to the power of the state regarding flood control and water management in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta of Bangladesh

Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 104-124

  Adnan, Shapan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84924749523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203884676-14     Document Type: Chapter

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