Climatic Hazards in Coastal Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutions

Climatic Hazards in Coastal Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutions

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-327

  Paul, Bimal Kanti ^a   Rashid, Harun ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

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