Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nibanupudi, Hari Krishna (Editor), Shaw, Rajib (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
• Subjects: 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...