Indus River Unleashed

ISBN-13: 9783659105531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 132 str.

Somana Riaz; Gohar Rehman

Opis

Increasing impacts of Monsoons in South Asia is effecting hundreds of lives every year. Due to the fertile soils majority of the population dwells in the flood plains and thus are at a constant risk of flooding. Keeping in view the increasing impacts of flooding along the Kabul River basin,adequate measures need to be taken to develop a flood resilient community. The present work focuses on the population that is vulnerable to deadly floods each year and suggests mitigation methods to reduce the socio-economic loses of the community suffering as a result of flooding along the Kabul river.

O autorze

Geology for me is the essence of exploring nature. My fields of interest are tectonics, hazard geology and structural geology. Keeping in view the increasing impacts of climate change and vulnerability of people in the Himalayan region the present work is carried out to highlight the impacts of floods that is a constant threat in Kabul river basin