Mountain specific multi-hazard risk management framework (MSMRMF): Assessment and mitigation of multi-hazard and climate change risk in the Indian Himalayan Region

Sekhri, Simran; Kumar, Praveen; Fürst, Christine; Pandey, Rajiv

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106700

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“…Sensitivity is de ned as the factor that cause a system or population to be harmed or deprived of water, and thus population density, a measure of water requirement (Lee and Choi, 2018) and edaphic factors such as slope and elevation (Gupta et al, 2020;Sekhri et al, 2020), were considered as indicators for sensitivity besides land use and land cover (LULC) as proxy to modify water availability (Adanu et al, 2020) i.e. less urbanization at gentle slope at low altitude lead to improvise the condition for improved water availability by reducing the evapotranspiration.…”

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Climate change water vulnerability and adaptation mechanism in a Himalayan City, Nainital, India

Chauhan

Thiyaharajan

Pandey³

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Urban water management is a growing concern in India's rapidly urbanizing cities. Population growth and climatic variability are further exuberating the impact on surface and underground water supply. Understanding the causes and the extent of water vulnerability is required for developing effective strategies for water insecurities. This study attempts to assess the water vulnerability across different wards of a touristic city of Himalaya -Nainital using IPCC approach considering the three dimensions exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Seven indicators, mostly spatial i.e. edaphic (aspect, elevation), climatic (land surface temperature) besides some water infrastructural (distance to water distribution) and population were considered for development of vulnerability index using Analytical Hierarchy Process for assigning weights. These indicators were simple to extract and easy to obtain and mostly available from secondary sources and were capable to account the variability at micro level.Moreover, the current adaptation mechanisms for water security were also derived through conducting surveys by randomly selecting households across the wards. Staff House and Harinagar wards were the most vulnerable. The survey results that the adaptation mechanism should be managed at individual and organisation level. Policy measures such as optimum use of water; grey water recycling, spring rejuvenation, rain water harvesting, leakage proof infrastructure with intervention of new technologies may be adopted and implemented for reducing the water vulnerability in the city along with the public participation.

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Climate change water vulnerability and adaptation mechanism in a Himalayan City, Nainital, India

Chauhan

Thiyaharajan

Pandey³

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Climate Change Water Vulnerability and Adaptation Mechanism in Constrained Touristic Himalayan City, Nainital

Chauhan¹,

Thiyaharajan²,

Pandey³

et al. 2021

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Urban water management is a growing concern in India’s rapidly urbanizing cities. Population growth and climatic variability are further exuberating the impact on surface and underground water supply. Understanding the causes and the extent of water vulnerability is required for developing effective strategies for water insecurities. This study attempts to assess the water vulnerability across different wards of a touristic city of Himalaya - Nainital using IPCC approach considering the three dimensions exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Seven indicators, mostly spatial i.e. edaphic (aspect, elevation), climatic (land surface temperature) besides some water infrastructural (distance to water distribution) and population were considered for development of vulnerability index using Analytical Hierarchy Process for assigning weights. These indicators were simple to extract and easy to obtain and mostly available from secondary sources and were capable to account the variability at micro level. Moreover, the current adaptation mechanisms for water security were also derived through conducting surveys by randomly selecting households across the wards. Staff House and Harinagar wards were the most vulnerable. The survey results that the adaptation mechanism should be managed at individual and organisation level. Policy measures such as optimum use of water; grey water recycling, spring rejuvenation, rain water harvesting, leakage proof infrastructure with intervention of new technologies may be adopted and implemented for reducing the water vulnerability in the city along with the public participation.

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“…The authors review several adverse events such as floods, hail and excessive wind, but the interaction effect between hazards was little discussed. Sekhri et al (2020) proposed a framework for multi-hazard risk management. However, their model was too specific for mountainous regions and a broader risk management strategy.…”

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Review article: Design and Evaluation of Weather Index Insurance for Multi-Hazard Resilience and Food Insecurity

Benso

Gesualdo²,

Silva³

et al. 2022

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Abstract. The urgency of accelerating disaster risk resilience also promotes preferred systematic reviews of the methods for design and evaluation of risk transfer tools. This paper aims to provide a state-of-art weather index insurance design, thereby including methods for natural hazards’ indices calculation, vulnerability assessment and risk pricing. We applied the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) using the Scopus database. First, 364 peer-reviewed articles from 2010 to present were screened for a bibliometric analysis and then, the 34 most cited articles from the past five years were systematically analyzed. Our results demonstrate that despite a great research effort on index insurance, the majority of them focused on food insecurity through agricultural and crop insurance. Also, climate change and basis risks were found highly relevant for weather index insurance, but weakly developed, suggesting challenges around food insecurity. Special focus was given to drought hazards, while other hazards such as temperature variation, excessive rainfall and wildfires were slightly covered. Emerging areas, namely agricultural, hydrological, and sustainable index insurance found promissory for insurance. Also, current state-of-the-art lacks methods for incorporating multi-hazard risk evaluation in vulnerability assessment and risk pricing. Most studies considered only single-hazard risk, and the multi-hazard risk studies assumed independence between hazards. Thus, we summarized the most common methods for calculating indices, estimating losses using indices, pricing risks, and evaluating insurance index policies. This review promotes a starting point in weather index insurance design towards a multi-hazard resilient society.

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Mountain specific multi-hazard risk management framework (MSMRMF): Assessment and mitigation of multi-hazard and climate change risk in the Indian Himalayan Region

Cited by 67 publications

References 55 publications

Climate change water vulnerability and adaptation mechanism in a Himalayan City, Nainital, India

Climate change water vulnerability and adaptation mechanism in a Himalayan City, Nainital, India

Climate Change Water Vulnerability and Adaptation Mechanism in Constrained Touristic Himalayan City, Nainital

Review article: Design and Evaluation of Weather Index Insurance for Multi-Hazard Resilience and Food Insecurity

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