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Actual and perceived causes of flood risk: climate versus anthropogenic effects in a wet zone catchment in Sri Lanka

Nishadi EriyagamaInternational Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri LankaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Madusanka ThilakarathneDepartment of Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USAORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-4265-5075View further author information
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Praveen TharukaDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, USAView further author information
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Tharindu MunaweeraInternational Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri LankaView further author information
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Lal MuthuwattaInternational Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri LankaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-5030-6003View further author information
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Vladimir SmakhtinUNU Institute for Water Environment and Health, Hamilton, ON, CanadaView further author information
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Wickrama Waththage PremachandraInternational Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri LankaView further author information
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Dhammi PindeniyaWetland Management Division, Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation, Colombo, Sri LankaView further author information
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N. S. WijayarathneWetland Management Division, Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation, Colombo, Sri LankaView further author information
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Lakshika UdamullaDepartment of Civil Engineering, Open University of Sri Lanka, Nugegoda, Sri LankaView further author information
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Pages 874-892 | Received 07 Oct 2016, Accepted 27 Aug 2017, Published online: 22 Sep 2017

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