Historical Events

Leroy, Suzanne A.G.; Gracheva, Raisa

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4399-4_169

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“…Consequently, historical disaster research can make significant contributions to mitigation, management, and reconstruction efforts and to the prevention of disasters among at-risk populations (Oliver-Smith and Hoffman 2002;Schenk 2014;Riede 2017). In disaster management processes, human archives can help to recognize geographic regions as well as societies and individuals (Leroy 2011). These reference collections can help to elucidate how political and socioeconomic realms interact over time with natural environments and vice versa.…”

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Retracing Realistic Disaster Scenarios from Archival Sources: A Key Tool for Disaster Risk Reduction

Ahmad¹,

Alam

Bhat

et al. 2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Disaster scenarios are constructed by integrating natural hazard phenomena and social science sources of information. We profiled 51 natural hazard events of nineteenth century Kashmir that provide insights into the impacts of varying degree of severity that spread through the socioeconomic and political systems, influenced adaptation, and increased the consequences of the resulting disasters. The root cause of these disasters was embedded in the social, natural, and political economic systems of their time, where vulnerabilities overlapped and interacted periodically with successive colonial regimes and acted as tipping points. The combined effect of successive colonial regimes, inept administration, rigid political economy, and natural hazards made the situation go from bad to worse and reduced Kashmir to the depths of distress and subjugation. Over the arc of the nineteenth century, a series of disasters led the Kashmiri population to learn how to live with disasters and minimize risk, bringing about the evolution of social and environmental knowledge. Understanding the natural hazard vulnerability of the Kashmir Valley through archival narratives can help in scenario building to translate findings into formats that reduce related risk now as it did then. The resulting information can be useful for regional design, planning, and policy responses to promote disaster risk reduction.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retracing Realistic Disaster Scenarios from Archival Sources: A Key Tool for Disaster Risk Reduction

Ahmad¹,

Alam

Bhat

et al. 2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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“…The slope failure trend has increased significantly owing to improper changes in land usage and ranked 10th among the most devastating natural disasters in the world occurring across almost all terrains with steep slopes singled out as the most susceptible to sliding [1]. Marques et al [2] reported an annual rate of soil erosion of 30-40 ton/ha in developed countries of Asia, Africa and South America.…”

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confidence: 99%