1.2 - Kashmir Flashcards
Number of deaths
100,000
What building technique is best?
Dari Dhewari helps to increase budding consolidation and EQ resistance
Why did buildings collapse (local)
Local knowledge leaving the area as carpenters migrate to urban areas like Lahore, or China
What added to building vulnerability
Modernisation came in through built highway
More concrete buildings made which couldn’t withstand EQ
How does religion affect vulnerability
Ramadan
Many people asleep as woke up early to break fast
How many schools affected?
6000
In mountainous region hard to reach
Political root cause
India Pakistan dispute
India didn’t want Pakistanis to fly their helicopters, delaying aid
Environmental factors?
Unseasonal and torrential rains Landslides from deforestation
Economy vulnerability?
Mainly primary sector agriculture
Not as educated
Effect on livestock
90% killed
How did landslides affect relief?
Blocked roads
Deforestation occurred due to what pressures?
Urbanisation from RUM
Needed land
Urbanisation caused
Population increase so pressure on resources
