Improving Natural Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Using Geographic Literacy
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عنوان ژورنال: Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2039-9340,2039-2117
DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n6p333