Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective (Community Environment and Disaster Risk Management)

✍ Scribed by Rajib Shaw

Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 392
Category: Library

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Промышленное и гражданское строительство;Градостроительство и благоустройство городов;

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