Flood Risk Awareness Game (FRAG): Learning to Prepare in Flood Events
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Contemporary Research in Social Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2641-0249
DOI: 10.33094/26410249.2019.17.151.157