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Document title

The role of scale in research on the Himalaya-Brahmaputra interaction

Authors(s) and Affiliation(s)

GAMBLE D.W. ; MEENTEMEYER V. ;

Abstract

Analysis of 52 published studies to determine the importance of scale in the debate over the causes of flooding in Bangladesh. Local studies have scales that are explicitly defined and focus on physical variables, whereas regional and continental studies have implicitely defined scales that focus on natural resource topics. - (DWG)

Keyword(s)

Hydrologie appliquée ; Inondation ; Echelle ; Ruissellement ; Mouvement de masse ; Ressource naturelle ; Hydrologie fluviale ; Débit ; Cours d'eau ; Charge solide ; Asie ; Himalaya ; Bangladesh

Applied hydrology ; Inundation ; Scale ; Rill wash ; Mass movement ; Natural resources ; Fluvial hydrology ; Discharge ; Stream ; Sediment load ; Asia ; Himalaya ; Bangladesh

Classification code(s)

531-353 : Bangladesh.

531-VII : ASIE.

531 : BGI / PRODIG.

Source

Article of periodic

published at : Mountain research and development / ISSN 0276-4741

Editor : United Nations University, Tokyo - JAPON (1981)

Millesime : 1996, vol. 16, n^o2 [pp. 149-155]

Bibliographic references : 61 ref.

Collation : Illustration ;

Language

Anglais

Localisation

Laboratoire INTERGEO - Paris

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 27286