Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tokyo :
Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Series: | Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
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| 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.