Himalayan Hazard

Author : Shruti Kanga,Gowhar Meraj,Majid Farooq,Suraj Kumar Singh,Mahendra Singh Nathawat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030893088

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Disaster Management in the Complex Himalayan Terrains by Shruti Kanga,Gowhar Meraj,Majid Farooq,Suraj Kumar Singh,Mahendra Singh Nathawat Pdf

South Asia, harboring the complex Himalayan terrains, has over one-fifth of the world’s population and is recognized as the most hazard-prone region of the world. The exponential increase in population with the consequent pressure on natural resources and continued high rates of poverty and food insecurity also makes this region the most vulnerable region to hazards in the world as far as the impacts of climate change are concerned. Over the last century, the climatic trends in South-Asia have been observed to be characterized by increasing air temperatures and an increasing trend in the intensity and frequency of extreme events. IPCC (2014) has reported that the Himalayan highlands shall face significant warming over the next century. The increasing frequency of natural hazards due to the impacts of climate change in the Himalayas calls for efficient management and policymaking in these regions, which can only be implemented by the local governments through an established science-based robust action plan. This edited volume focuses on the management of natural hazards using innovative techniques of spatial information sciences and satellite remote sensing. It contains chapters from eminent researchers and experts in the field of hazard management, remote sensing, and GIS. The primary focus of this book is to replenish the gap in the available literature on the subject by bringing the concepts, theories, and practical experiences of the specialists and professionals in this field together in one volume to help students, researchers, and policymakers to address issues concerning management and policy implications of natural hazards in the complex Himalayan region.

Author : Bindhy Wasini Pandey
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Beās River Watershed (India)
ISBN : 8170998646

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Geoenvironmental Hazards in Himalaya by Bindhy Wasini Pandey Pdf

Author : S. K. Chadha
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 8170243548

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Himalayas, Environmental Problems by S. K. Chadha Pdf

Author : Rodolphe Cattin,Jean-Luc Epard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789451313

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Himalaya: Dynamics of a Giant, Current Activity of the Himalayan Range by Rodolphe Cattin,Jean-Luc Epard Pdf

Author : P. Gupta,J. Sundaresan,R. Boojh,K. M. Santosh
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789386237309

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND HIMALAYA : NATURAL HAZARDS AND MOUNTAIN RESOURCES by P. Gupta,J. Sundaresan,R. Boojh,K. M. Santosh Pdf

The book “Climate Change and Himalaya- Natural hazards and mountain resources” presents the resources of Himalaya along with the potential natural hazards. It consists twenty two chapters from researchers working in different institutions with multi disciplinary approach. More than seven hundred glaciers were monitored and discussed in one of the chapter of this book. This book will be highly useful to researchers, policy makers, students and is an essential document to libraries of universities, colleges, research institutions and personnel collections.

Author : Max Wyss
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780123964724

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Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters by Max Wyss Pdf

Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters presents the latest scientific developments and reviews of research addressing seismic hazard and seismic risk, including causality rates, impacts on society, preparedness, insurance and mitigation. The current controversies in seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction are addressed from different points of view. Basic tools for understanding the seismic risk and to reduce it, like paleoseismology, remote sensing, and engineering are discussed. Contains contributions from expert seismologists, geologists, engineers and geophysicists selected by a world-renowned editorial board Presents the latest research on seismic hazard and risk assessment, economic impacts, fatality rates, and earthquake preparedness and mitigation Includes numerous illustrations, maps, diagrams and tables addressing earthquake risk reduction Features new insights and reviews of earthquake prediction, forecasting and early warning, as well as basic tools to deal with earthquake risk

Author : Troy Sternberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317165101

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Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments by Troy Sternberg Pdf

Climate hazards are the world’s most widespread, deadliest and costliest natural disasters. Knowledge of climate hazard dynamics is critical since the impacts of climate change, population growth, development projects and migration affect both the impact and severity of disasters. Current global events highlight how hazards can lead to significant financial losses, increased mortality rates and political instability. This book examines climate hazard crises in contemporary Asia, identifying how hazards from the Middle East through South and Central Asia and China have the power to reshape our globalised world. In an era of changing climates, knowledge of hazard dynamics is essential to mitigating disasters and strengthening livelihoods and societies across Asia. By integrating human exposure to climate factors and disaster episodes, the book explores the environmental forces that drive disasters and their social implications. Focusing on a range of Asian countries, landscapes and themes, the chapters address several scales (province, national, regional), different hazards (drought, flood, temperature, storms, dust), environments (desert, temperate, mountain, coastal) and issues (vulnerability, development, management, politics) to present a diverse, comprehensive evaluation of climate hazards in Asia. This book offers an understanding of the challenges climate hazards present, their critical nature and the effort needed to mitigate climate hazards in 21st-century Asia. Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments is vital reading for those interested and engaged in Asia’s development and well-being today and will be of interest to those working in Geography, Development Studies, Environmental Sciences, Sociology and Political Science.

Author : Charles A. Williams,Zhigang Peng,Yongxian Zhang,Eiichi Fukuyama,Thomas Goebel,Mark R. Yoder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319922973

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Earthquakes and Multi-hazards Around the Pacific Rim, Vol. II by Charles A. Williams,Zhigang Peng,Yongxian Zhang,Eiichi Fukuyama,Thomas Goebel,Mark R. Yoder Pdf

This is the second of two volumes devoted to earthquakes and multi-hazards around the Pacific Rim. The circum-Pacific seismic belt is home to roughly 80% of the world’s largest earthquakes, making it the ideal location for investigating earthquakes and related hazards such as tsunamis and landslides. Following the Introduction, this volume includes 14 papers covering a range of topics related to multi-hazards. The book is divided into five sections: viscoelastic deformation, earthquake source models, earthquake prediction, seismic hazard assessment, and tsunami simulation. Viscoelastic relaxation can play an important role in subduction zone behavior, and this is explored in the first section, with specific examples including the Tohoku-oki earthquake in Eastern Japan. In addition to laboratory rock friction experiments, the second section examines earthquake source models for the 2016 MW 6.6 Aketao earthquake in Eastern Pamir and two earthquakes in Eastern Taiwan, along with strong ground motion studies of the 2008 MW 7.9 Wenchuan, China earthquake. The Load/Unload Response Ratio (LURR), Natural Time (NT), and “nowcasting” are earthquake prediction techniques that are analyzed in the third section, with nowcasting predictions performed for a number of large cities globally. Viscoelastic relaxation can play an important role in subduction zone behavior, assessment are the focus of the fourth section, with specific applications to the Himalayan-Tibetan region and the Xianshuihe Fault Zone in Southwest China. In the last section, a new approach in modeling tsunami height distributions is described. Rapid advances are being made in our understanding of multi-hazards, as well as the range of tools used to investigate them. This volume provides a representative cross-section of how state-of-the-art knowledge and tools are currently being applied to multi-hazards around the Pacific Rim. The material here should be of interest to scientists involved in all areas of multi-hazards, particularly seismic and tsunami hazards. In addition, it offers a valuable resource for students in the geosciences, covering a broad spectrum of topics related to hazard research.

Author : P. C. Tiwari,Bhagwati Joshi
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8173870667

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Wildlife in the Himalayan Foothills by P. C. Tiwari,Bhagwati Joshi Pdf

Author : Jack Ives
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134369089

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Himalayan Perceptions by Jack Ives Pdf

In the 1970s and 1980s many institutions, agencies and scholars believed that the Himalayan region was facing severe environmental disaster, due primarily to rapid growth in population that has caused extensive deforestation, which in turn has led to massive landsliding and soil erosion. This series of assumptions was first challenged in the book: The Himalayan Dilemma (1989: Ives and Messerli, Routledge). Nevertheless, the environmental crisis paradigm still commands considerable support, including logging bans in the mountain watersheds of China, India, and Thailand, and is constantly being promoted by the news media. Himalayan Perceptions identifies the confusion of misunderstanding, vested interests, changing perceptions, and institutional unwillingness to base development policy on sound scientific knowledge. It analyzes the large amount of new research published since 1989 and totally refutes the entire construct. It examines recent social and economic developments in the region and identifies warfare, guerrilla activities, and widespread oppression of poor ethnic minorities as the primary cause for the instability that pervades the entire region. It is argued that the development controversy is further confounded by exaggerated reporting, even falsification, by news media, environmental publications, and agency reports alike.

Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher : Himalayan Journal of Scienc
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Culture and tourism
ISBN : 9789994696659

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Himalayan Perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-being of Mountain Peoples [ENHANCED] (Hardcover) by Jack D. Ives Pdf

Author : Hari Krishna Nibanupudi,Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9784431552420

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Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction by Hari Krishna Nibanupudi,Rajib Shaw Pdf

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.

Author : Khadg Singh Valdiya
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8125027351

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Coping with Natural Hazards by Khadg Singh Valdiya Pdf

This book is a collection of twenty one papers presented during the symposium on Coping with Natural Hazards at University of Pune on 5 and 6 October 2001. This very successful symposium, organised by the National Academy of Sciences, outlined the strategies our country should adopt to be prepared to face hazards like earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, cyclones, droughts and desertification. It contains papers by pre-eminent scientists and leading lights like Professors M G K Menon, P K Das, D R Sikka and R K Bhandari and many others. Each paper has been critically reviewed by atleast two experts in their respective fields.

Author : Jonathan D. Paul,David M. Hannah,Wei Liu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889634019

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Citizen Science: Reducing Risk and Building Resilience to Natural Hazards by Jonathan D. Paul,David M. Hannah,Wei Liu Pdf

Author : Jörn H. Kruhl,Rameshwar Adhikari,Uwe E. Dorka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783319680446

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Living Under the Threat of Earthquakes by Jörn H. Kruhl,Rameshwar Adhikari,Uwe E. Dorka Pdf

This book addresses earthquakes, with a special focus on the Ghorka earthquake, which struck parts of central Nepal in April 2015. Drawing on this disastrous event, it closely examines various aspects of earthquakes in contributions prepared by international experts. The topics covered include: the geological and geophysical background of seismicity; a detailed inventory of the damage done by the earthquake; effective damage prevention through earthquake-safe buildings and settlements; restoration options for world-heritage buildings; strategies for providing technical and medical relief and, lastly, questions associated with public life and economy in a high-risk seismic zone. Combining perspectives from various fields, the book presents the state of the art in all earthquake-related fields and outlines future approaches to risk identification, damage prevention, and disaster management in all parts of society, administration, and politics in Nepal. Beyond the specific disaster in Nepal, the findings presented here will have broader implications for how societies can best deal with disasters.