The Floodplain Fallacy: Why Building Near Himalayan Rivers is Financial Suicide: Santa lays out a premium riverside commercial resort right inside an active river flood channel, ignoring municipal restrictions. Banta uses a high-resolution GIS hazard zonation map to expose the geomorphic realities of the 2013 Uttarakhand and 2021 Melamchi disasters, explaining why land-use zoning is our only defense against man-made river tragedies.
Land Use
The Quest for the Buried Naula
Development in the Himalayan region is taking heavy toll of the very environment that attracts tourists and is damaging traditional water sources, agricultural land and livelihoods.