Mountain hazards

Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 33-48

  Slaymaker, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84926098112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511807527.004     Document Type: Chapter

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