Confronting Glacial Hazards: A Study of Disaster Impact and Community Adaptation to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Hunza, Pakistan
As climate change hastens glacial retreat across the world, high mountain communities face increasing risks from glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) with limited capacity to mitigate their impact and recover from repeated cycles of losses. This thesis looks at the Hassanabad settlement in Hunza, Pa...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156156 |