Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans

Aditya Ghosh

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63892-8

Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans

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Sustainability conflicts in Coastal India: Hazards, changing climate and development discourse in Indian Sundarbans. / Ghosh, Aditya.
1 ed. Germany: Springer, 2017. 245 p. (Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research).

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