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Conservation of Wetlands to Mitigate Urban Floods |
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T.V. Ramachandra1,2,3,* Bharath H. Aithal1,2 Uttam Kumar1,2
1 Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES], 2 Centre for Sustainable Technologies (astra)
3 Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning [CiSTUP]
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India.
*Corresponding author: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
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Citation : Ramachandra. T.V., Bharath H. Aithal and Uttam Kumar., 2012. Conservation of Wetlands to Mitigate Urban Floods., Resources, Energy, and Development. 9(1), pp. 1-22.
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