By Dennis J. Parker
ISBN-10: 0415172381
ISBN-13: 9780415172387
Floods offers the main complete assortment up to now of latest learn, supplying a wealthy physique of concept and adventure and drawing jointly contributions from over fifty major overseas researchers within the box. an in depth variety of case-studies protecting significant floods and areas susceptible to flooding all over the world are integrated.
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