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UTTARAKHAND DELUGE ― MAN-MADE
| 题名： | UTTARAKHAND DELUGE ― MAN-MADE |
| 其他题名： | 1.Kala,CP.Deluge,disaster and development in Uttarakhand Himalayan region of India:Challenges and lessons for disaster management.International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction,2014. |
| 正文语种： | 英文 |
| 作者： | W. Rahman |
| 关键词： | ecological；development；khan；tara；dynamitin；flood；environmental；aspects；balance；hand |
| 摘要： | The upper Himalayan territories of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are full of forests and snow-covered mountains. They are home to several major and historic Hindu and Sikh pilgrimage sites besides several tourist spots and trekking trails. From 14 to 17 June 2013, the Indian state of Uttarakhand and adjoining areas received heavy rainfall, which was about 375 percent more than the benchmark rainfall during a normal monsoon, due to ecological imbalance, in the hills of Uttarakhand rainfall is becoming variable & unseasonal. This caused the melting of Chorabari Glacier at the height of 3800 metres, and eruption of the Mandakini River which led to heavy floods near Gobindghat, Kedar Dome, Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal and Northern India. Destruction of bridges and roads left about 100,000 pilgrims and tourists trapped in the valleys leading to three of the four Hindu Chota Char Dham pilgrimage sites. It is Man-Made factors, unscientific human interference with the youngest and fragile hills of Uttarakhand are responsible to a great extent, for the wreckage of Uttarakhand of June 2013. The incessant rain that hit Uttarakhand triggered flash floods and landslides, led to thousands of deaths, while thousands more missing. The Indian Air Force, the Indian Army, and paramilitary troops evacuated more than 110,000 people from the flood ravaged areas. The unplanned infrastructure development done in the past decade in the fragile hills of Uttarakhand, without taking in to consideration environmental aspects & ecological aspects i.e. unscientific way of roads and building constructions (heavy blasting), indiscriminating dynamiting& quarrying, felting of trees, and cutting of forest, power project build to next to each other on flood prone rives of Uttarakhand, and encroachment on river banks have totally damaged the hills of Uttarakhand resulting "Ecological Imbalance", that led to uncontrolled flow of water in the flood prone rivers of Uttarakhand and heavy landslides, resulted to "Disaster Waiting to Happen". Until we find a vaccine for the two kinds of diseased developmental pragmatisms afflicting us - the rational and the rapacious, we might have to get used to such tragedies, as of the Uttarakhand Disaster June 2013. |
| 出版年： | 2015 |
| 论文唯一标识： | I-75Y2015V43N04004 |
| 英文栏目名称： | Technical Papers |
| 期刊名称： | Indian Highways |
| 拼音刊名(出版物代码)： | I-75 |
| 卷： | 43 |
| 期： | 04 |
| 页码： | 31-38 |
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