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Urban Hydrology and Sedimentation in the Humid Tropics

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Developments and Applications of Geomorphology

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Over the last twenty-five years a considerable amount of research has been done on the modification of the physical environment by urbanization. A large storage of data on changes in local hydrology, sedimentation patterns and channel morphology has been created, a conceptual model of the time-sequence and intensity of such changes has been built, and the information and concepts have been used to ameliorate environmental problems arising from urbanization.

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    Avijit Gupta

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  1. Denver Federal Center, U. S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop 413, 80225, Lakewood, CO, USA

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Gupta, A. (1984). Urban Hydrology and Sedimentation in the Humid Tropics. In: Costa, J.E., Fleisher, P.J. (eds) Developments and Applications of Geomorphology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69759-3_8

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