Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Overview of Mountain Hazards Issues

   • Rajib Shaw, Hari Krishna Nibanupudi

   Pages 1-11

3. Massive Varunavat Hill Landslide Overlooking Uttarkashi Town in Uttarakhand Himalaya: Its Treatment Vis-à-Vis Stability Analysis

   • Pramod C. Nawani, Sripad R. Naik, Roshan Nair

   Pages 13-31

4. Floods in the Hindu Kush Region: Causes and Socio-Economic Aspects

   • Atta-ur-Rahman, Rajib Shaw

   Pages 33-52

5. Evolution of Geomorphologic Hazards in Hindu Kush Himalaya

   • Subodh Dhakal

   Pages 53-72

6. Seismic Hazard in the Himalayan Intermontane Basins: An Example from Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

   • Deepak Chamlagain, Dipendra Gautam

   Pages 73-103

7. Demographic Changes, Economic Changes and Livelihood Changes in the HKH Region

   • Shobha Poudel, Rajib Shaw

   Pages 105-123

8. Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis in Uttarakhand Himalaya and Its Impact on Environmental Risks

   • Indrajit Pal

   Pages 125-137

9. Mitigating Climatic and Human Induced Disaster Risks Through Ecosystem Resilience: Harmonizing Built and Natural Environments in the HKH Region

   • Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, Anil K. Gupta, Pradeep K. Rawat

   Pages 139-157

10. Analysis of Policies and Institutional Framework of HKH Countries

    • Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, Rajib Shaw

    Pages 159-175

11. Indigenous Resilience and Adaptation in High Altitude Arid Zone Communities

    • Sunny Kumar, Anshu Sharma, Rajib Shaw, Sahba Chauhan

    Pages 177-197

12. Snow Water Harvesting in the Cold Desert in Ladakh: An Introduction to Artificial Glacier

    • Chewang Norphel, Padma Tashi

    Pages 199-210

13. Some Socio-Economically Significant Landslides in Uttarakhand Himalaya: Events, Consequences and Lessons Learnt

    • Surya Parkash

    Pages 211-232

14. Gender and Disaster Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region

    • Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, Manohara Khadka

    Pages 233-249

15. Interlacing of Regional Water Policies, Institutions and Agreements with Livelihoods and Disaster Vulnerabilities in the HKH Region: A Case Study of Kosi River Basin

    • Nilhari Neupane, Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, Min Bahadur Gurung

    Pages 251-270

16. Analysis of Regional Cooperation from the Perspective of Regional and Global Geo-Political Developments and Future Scenarios

    • Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, Rajib Shaw

    Pages 271-284

17. Erratum

    • Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, Rajib Shaw

    Pages E1-E1

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.

• Climate change and climate extremes
• Disaster risk reduction
• Environment and the ecosystem
• Regional cooperation
• Resilience and adaptation
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Hari Krishna Nibanupudi

• Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  Rajib Shaw

Hari Krishna Nibanupudi

Hari Krishna Nibanupudi has over 18 years of experience in disaster diplomacy, governance, leadership development & institutional building. He is certified Trainer on water diplomacy from Tufts University and is a recipient of Mary Fran Myers (MFM) award (2013) for contributions to disaster risk reduction. He currently serves at International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) as a Senior DRR Specialist. Earlier, he worked with World Bank Institute, Oxfam, IIMA & IRMA. He has commissioned and coordinated over 30 humanitarian research projects and published over a dozen of disaster risk reduction tool kits, handbooks, training manuals and videos. Many of these research studies were aimed at providing real time research and evaluation support to on going programs in South Asian countries.

Rajib Shaw

Rajib Shaw is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan.  He worked closely with the local communities, NGOs, governments and international organization, including United Nations, especially in the Asian countries.  He is currently the Chair of the United Nations Asia Regional Task Force for Urban Risk Reduction, and the President of Asian University Network of Environment and Disaster Management (AUEDM).  His research interests are: community based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education.  He has published several books in the field of disaster and environmental management. He is also the Chief Editor of Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management.

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