Widening Roads, Triggering Landslides: The Geotechnical Crisis on Himalayan Highways: Santa praises fast vertical rock-cutting to widen mountain highways. Banta shatters the engineering shortcut, showing how unengineered slopes and exposed construction muck create high-velocity landslide risks during peak travel seasons, and why advanced soil nailing is a non-negotiable safety baseline.
Landslide mitigation
Landslide Safe Uttarakhand
A blueprint for a landslide safe Uttarakhand that advocates integration of governance and true inter-agency coordination, with the involvement of local communities armed with their traditional knowledge, for proactive mitigation.
The Wisdom of the Wetland and Santa’s Concrete Fever
Wetlands are nature’s flood mitigation warriors – these absorb floodwaters as also help groundwater recharge. Wetland conservation is thus an eco-DRR approach that needs to be promoted.
Himalayan Habitats: Built on Landslides, Threatened by Negligence
Not landslides, but our ignorance and greed are responsible for increasing losses due to this phenomenon that facilitated growth of habitations in the Himalayan region.
Neglected terraces & enhanced landslide risk
Might sound bizarre, but you are soon to realize the logic as also the seriousness of the issue and if not addressed effectively it is to pose a major threat for the hilly terrain of Uttarakhand. Terracing: Agriculture + Terracing is one of the techniques often utilized even today for treating the landslide. It reduces […]