Causes and Disaster Risk Reduction Measures for Hydrometerological Disaster in Uttarakhand, India: An Overview
Abstract
The frequency and intensity of Hydro-meteorological disaster (HMD) in Uttarakhand are increasing from last 15 years. These catastrophic events have brought heavy toll to the human population, resources and the state infrastructure in terms of economy and societal. Casualties and damage due to hazards in Uttarakhand regions have increased due to climatic factor, geological factor and increasing human population. The unscientific and need based developmental activities causing the imbalance in the natural ecosystem and environment becoming more susceptible to natural disasters. Through this paper, we carried out a comprehensive analysis and study the causes, the time factor and Disaster Risk Reduction measures for HMD and summarized that these disasters by their nature difficult to predict and control but we can only minimize the impact of HMD by strongly implementation of Pre-disaster mitigation measures such as proper planning, public awareness, training, knowledge of mitigation measures, structural and non structural measures, monitoring the hazard prone areas and honestly follow the environmental and disaster mitigation rules by all of us including government as well as private developers with an early warning system measures.
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