Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Nibanupudi, Hari Krishna. (Editor), Shaw, Rajib. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55242-0
Table of Contents:
  • 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.