Mountain hazards and disaster risk reduction
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Mountain hazards and disaster risk reduction
(Disaster risk reduction : methods, approaches and practices)
Springer, c2015
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 monsoon period and drought in the non-monsoon period. Against the backdrop of intensifying disasters and in the absence of a focused documentation of disaster risk reduction issues in the HKH region, this volume presents a comprehensive body of knowledge. The main purpose and objective of this publication is to connect existing data, research, conceptual work, and practical cases on risk, resilience, and risk reduction from the HKH region under a common analytical umbrella. The result is a contribution to advancing disaster resilience and risk reduction in the HKH region. The book will be of special interest to policy makers, donors, and researchers concerned with the disaster issues in the region.
Table of Contents
Overview of Mountain Hazards Issues.- Massive Varunavat Hill Landslide overlooking Uttarkashi Town in Uttarakhand Himalaya - Its treatment vis-a-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.
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