Paper:
Local People’s Responses to Flood Disasters in Flood Prone Areas of Northeast Bangladesh
Naoki Yamashita* and Terunori Ohmoto**
*Water Resources & Energy Department, Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., 5-4 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8539, Japan
**Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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