1.2 - Cracking Kashmir Flashcards

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Pressure and Release Model (Nutcracker Analogy)

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Risk is nut potentially cracking
Hazard is pressure from nutcracker
Disaster is nut cracking
Vulnerability + hazard event are pressure from arms of nutcracker
Capacity to cope is resilience from hard outer shell of nut

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Location

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Very remote, poor, mountainous - landslides + falling rock blocked roads
Unseasonal rain + harsh Himalayas - saturated soil

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3
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Time and season

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Saturday morning - children at school/ people sleeping since Ramadan
Winter - more treacherous conditions

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Governance

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Lack of maps + bureaucracy meant slow govt mishandled aid

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Direct impacts

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90% livestock killed
3.5 million displaced
100000 dead
138000 injured

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Unsafe conditions

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Poor building practices - built on steep land + no code enforcement
Little aseismic knowledge
Loss of traditional skills (Dhajji Dewari) - Karakoram Highway Borough modernisation and concrete construction

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Dynamic pressures

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Illegal + corrupt deforestation - growing population needed more fuel
High agricultural dependency - highway too modernised for them

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National/global causes

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Pakistani govt encouraged local workers to emigrate - attracts foreign
Poor relations with Indian govt - less aid (helicopters)
Economic focus not on aseismic - areas have mr funding than others

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Relief

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Pakistani govt provided relief

Into relief agencies - US$5.4 billion

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Aid

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UK Donors Conference + Pakistani Britons

Ramadan do gooders brought car supplies (volunteers)

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UN

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2.4m blankets
1.2m quilts
170000 plastic sheets
200000 tarpaulins

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