Disaster Management in the Complex Himalayan Terrains

Disaster Management in the Complex Himalayan Terrains

Natural Hazard Management, Methodologies and Policy Implications

Farooq, Majid; Nathawat, Mahendra Singh; Meraj, Gowhar; Singh, Suraj Kumar; Kanga, Shruti

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

02/2022

182

Dura

Inglês

9783030893071

15 a 20 dias

501

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Part-A: Introduction to the Disasters and Hazards in the Himalayan Terrains.- 1. Disasters in the Complex Himalayan Terrains.- 2. Hazards in the perspective of Himalayan Terrain: A review.- Part-B: Landslides in the Himalayas - Causes and Consequences.- 3. Himalayan Landslides - Causes and Evolution.- 4. Landslides in the Himalayas: Causes, Evolution, and Mitigation - A Case Study of National Highway 44, India.- 5. Geo-environmental Impact of Road Widening Project along the National Highway- 44A, Jammu & Kashmir, India.- Part-C: Floods in the Himalayas - Causes and Consequences.- 6. September 2014 floods in Kashmir Himalaya - Impacts and Mitigation Strategy.- 7. A review on the estimation of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the Himalayan region using remote sensing and geographic information system.- 8. Impact of Floods on the Green Energy Sector in the Himalayas using remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) - A case study of Gagas Watershed, Uttarakhand, India.- Part-D: Earthquakes in the Himalayas - Assessment and Forecasting.- 9. Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry to Measure Earthquake Related Deformation: A Case Study from Nepal.- 10. Earthquake Forecasting in the Himalayas using Artificial Neural Networks.- Part-E: Hazard mitigation strategies in the Himalayas.- 11. Forest Fire Alert System of India with a Special Reference to Fire Vulnerability Assessment of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir.- 12. Hazard mitigation and climate change in the Himalayas - Policy and Decision making.
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GIScience;Climate Change;Environmental monitoring;GIS for Disaster Management;geospatial modeling;disaster mapping;regional climate models;watershed management;Himalayas;River Basin Management;hazard mapping;hazard management