Slope Stability & Landuse: Improving Planning Practice (2009)

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Discussion / Working PapersPublisher
Centre for Advanced Engineering, University of CanterburyISBN
978-0-908993-05-5Collections
Editors
Hoskin, Kristin
Abstract
A report commissioned by the New Zealand Earthquake Commission under its ‘Science to Practice’ Programme.
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