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Multiresilience Indicators Assessment in Seismic Zone V Area in Parts of Uttarakhand, India, Using Geospatial Technology

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The Himalayan region is a seismically active zone and has witnessed the massive loss of properties and lives due to the collapse of infrastructure and lack of preparedness. Many studies focus on the susceptibility analysis; however, in this chapter, we have considered the dynamic nature of the earthquake hazard and factors affecting the resilience at the household level. This chapter considers the aspects of environmental, economic, social, and physical parameters for resilience analysis. An amalgamated indicator-based framework has been developed including the level of exposure, coping capacity, and the level of resilience to assess the household vulnerability to the earthquake in the study area using indicators and subindicators. The outcome of the study establishes the risk of residential, commercial, and mixed-use buildings and their association with wider socioeconomic consequences of a major earthquake event. Lack of resource diversification, gaps in the implementation of building codes, and lack of awareness have put households at high risk. Further, the chapter highlights large migration from surrounding villages as a significant factor affecting the overall resilience of the community. Since this framework adopts vulnerability as the primary criteria to the dimensions with a bottom-up approach for analyzing the resilience of the household, it can be applied to other hazards and locations too at microlevel planning for disaster risk reduction.

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  1. Centre for Geoinformatics, JTSDS, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India

    Ankita Padhalni

  2. Department of Geology, School of Earth Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India

    Balamurugan Guru

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Padhalni, A., Guru, B. (2023). Multiresilience Indicators Assessment in Seismic Zone V Area in Parts of Uttarakhand, India, Using Geospatial Technology. In: Singh, A. (eds) International Handbook of Disaster Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8800-3_213-1

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