Natural and manmade disasters: accepting and managing risks
โ Scribed by Berrin Tansel
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 582 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0925-7535
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