2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Landslide Disasters: Seeking Causes – A Case Study from Uttarakhand, India
verfasst von : Martin Haigh, J. S. Rawat
Erschienen in: Management of Mountain Watersheds
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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This study is about the fundamental causes and character of landslides in the Himalaya and similar mountain belts. In part, it is intended as a protest against the repetitive and misleading reports that so often follow each successive extreme rainfall event and consequent landslide swarm. The problem is that many of these.‘kneejerk’. reactions to a disaster do little more than support folklore or a particular political stance.