TY  - GEN
AU  - Nibanupudi, Hari Krishna ed.
AU  - Shaw, Rajib ed.
TI  - Mountain hazards and disaster risk reduction
SN  - 9784431563754
U1  - 551.307 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Tokyo
PB  - Springer
KW  - URP
N2  - 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
ER  -