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Study of Integrated Social Vulnerability Index SoVIint of Hilly Region of Uttarakhand, India

Environmental and Climate Technologies
Volume 24 (2020): Issue 1 (January 2020)
By: Dilip KumarORCID and  Rajib Kumar BhattacharjyaORCID  
Open Access
|Feb 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208
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Language: English
Page range: 105 - 122
Published on: Feb 7, 2020
Published by: Riga Technical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Integrated vulnerability,
social,
vulnerability index
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other

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