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Urban Floods:
Case Study of Bangalore
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T. V. Ramachandra 1 and Pradeep P. Mujumdar 2
1 Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, 2 Department of Civil Engineering,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, India
E-mail: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, pradeep@civil.iisc.ernet.in

Urban Floods: Case study of Bang..

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Citation: Ramachandra T. V. and Pradeep P. Mujumdar, 2009, Urban Floods: Case Study of Bangalore, Journal of the National Institute of Disaster Management, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2009, pp. 1 – 98.
* Corresponding Author :
  Dr. T.V. Ramachandra
Energy & Wetlands Research Group,
Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA.
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