Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Nibanupudi, Hari Krishna (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Shaw, Rajib (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Natural disasters.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and wet mass movements during the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Overview of Mountain Hazards Issues
• Massive Varunavat Hill Landslide overlooking Uttarkashi Town in Uttarakhand Himalaya – Its treatment vis-à-vis stability analysis
• Floods in the Hindu Kush Region: Causes and Socio-economic Aspects
• Evolution of Geomorphologic Hazards in Hindu Kush Himalaya
• Seismic Hazard in the Himalayan Intermontane Basins: An Example From Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
• Demographic changes, economic changes and livelihood challenges in HKH region
• Land use and land cover change analysis in Uttarakhand Himalaya and its impact on environmental risks
• Mitigating Climatic and Human Induced Disaster risks through Ecosystem Resilience: Harmonizing Built and Natural Environments in the HKH region
• Analysis of policies and institutional framework of HKH countries
• Indigenous resilience and adaptation in high altitude arid zone communities
• Snow water Harvesting in the Cold Desert in Ladakh: An introduction to Artificial Glacier
• Some Socio-economically Significant Landslides in Uttarakhand Himalaya – Events, Consequences and Lessons Learnt
• Gender and Disaster Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region
• Interlacing regional water policies, institutions and agreements with livelihoods and vulnerabilities in the HKH region: A case study of Kosi river basin
• Analysis of regional cooperation from the perspective regional and global geo-political developments and future scenarios.