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Flash Flood in Himalayan Region of Uttrakhand (A Case Study of Kedarnath Flood 2013 and Rishi Ganga Flash Flood, Reini Village 2021)

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• Nitesh Sharma 7 ,
• Kanchan Deoli Bahukhandi 8 &
• Siddiqui Nihal Anwar 8  

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The climate change significantly affect the glacial of Himalayan region. The flash floods are one of the most perilous climate-related disastrous events in the Himalayan region. Such floods grow under six hours after the rainfall that prompted risky circumstances for individuals and cause loss of life, property and environment. Just about seven years after such flash floods attacked the Kedarnath valley in Uttarakhand, around 5000 individuals were killed, and the scientists have cautioned that conditions were creating for a comparative misfortune going to happen in the district again. The cloudburst situation on every next day had occurred mainly in the Uttarakhand caused decimating floods and landslides turning into the nation’s most exceedingly awful natural disaster event since the tsunami in the year of 2004, which was about 375% more than the benchmark rainfall during an ordinary rainstorm. Aside from the social, political, and affordable misfortunes, such natural disasters adjust the prior landscape of Kedarnath region. This paper provided the satellite data for the year 2007, 2013, and 2019. The information and data are compared with before the event of the flash flood and after the flash flood and its impact caused alongside. The comparative analysis have also been carried out by using the GIS and Remote Sensing techniques by comparing before and after flash flood event.

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Sharma, N., Bahukhandi, K.D., Anwar, S.N. (2022). Flash Flood in Himalayan Region of Uttrakhand (A Case Study of Kedarnath Flood 2013 and Rishi Ganga Flash Flood, Reini Village 2021). In: Bahukhandi, K.D., Kamboj, N., Kamboj, V. (eds) Environmental Pollution and Natural Resource Management . Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05335-1_19

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Disaster and Livelihood of the Affected Population: Case Study of June 2013 Disaster in Rudraprayag District of Uttarakhand

Impact of disaster on the disaster affected population and utilisation pattern of the relief is assessed though a semi-structured questionnaire and focused discussions in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand in India that was affected by devastated floods in June, 2013. The families dependent on farm animals, agricultural land and business were covered under the study. This research is based on fieldwork carried out in the disaster affected Rudraprayag district and investigated an aspect that has not been studied in detail. It is found that the most persons engaged in small operations and particularly those coming from low socio-economic strata of the community fail to avail support from organised financial institutions and are therefore unable to replenish the productive assets lost in disaster and most money received in relief is spent on subsistence. This has resulted in reduced earning and deteriorated quality of life of the local inhabitants. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the fact that in the absence of popularity of risk transfer tools, productive assets lost in disaster are often not replenished as the relief amount provided by the state is significantly less than the market value of lost assets. In case of loss of productive assets, the state should therefore initiate an organised scheme with the involvement of financial institutions to ensure replenishment of productive assets of the disaster affected population rather than providing cash relief and insurance of the assets created be made mandatory as the voluntary adoption of risk transfer tools is unlikely to come by soon.

Economic recovery , Productive assets , Disaster , Relief , Mandakini valley , Uttarakhand Himalaya , Uttarakhand Himalaya

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