Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

✍ Scribed by Rajib Shaw, Hari Krishna Nibanupudi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Series: Disaster Risk Reduction
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Overview of Mountain Hazards Issues....Pages 1-11
Massive Varunavat Hill Landslide Overlooking Uttarkashi Town in Uttarakhand Himalaya: Its Treatment Vis-`-Vis Stability Analysis....Pages 13-31
Floods in the Hindu Kush Region: Causes and Socio-Economic Aspects....Pages 33-52
Evolution of Geomorphologic Hazards in Hindu Kush Himalaya....Pages 53-72
Seismic Hazard in the Himalayan Intermontane Basins: An Example from Kathmandu Valley, Nepal....Pages 73-103
Demographic Changes, Economic Changes and Livelihood Changes in the HKH Region....Pages 105-123
Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis in Uttarakhand Himalaya and Its Impact on Environmental Risks....Pages 125-137
Mitigating Climatic and Human Induced Disaster Risks Through Ecosystem Resilience: Harmonizing Built and Natural Environments in the HKH Region....Pages 139-157
Analysis of Policies and Institutional Framework of HKH Countries....Pages 159-175
Indigenous Resilience and Adaptation in High Altitude Arid Zone Communities....Pages 177-197
Snow Water Harvesting in the Cold Desert in Ladakh: An Introduction to Artificial Glacier....Pages 199-210
Some Socio-Economically Significant Landslides in Uttarakhand Himalaya: Events, Consequences and Lessons Learnt....Pages 211-232
Gender and Disaster Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region....Pages 233-249
Interlacing of Regional Water Policies, Institutions and Agreements with Livelihoods and Disaster Vulnerabilities in the HKH Region: A Case Study of Kosi River Basin....Pages 251-270
Analysis of Regional Cooperation from the Perspective of Regional and Global Geo-Political Developments and Future Scenarios....Pages 271-284