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Nepal Hazard Risk Assessment
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of contents ......................................................................................................................................... ii
List of figures .............................................................................................................................................. iv
List of tables ................................................................................................................................................. v
Contributors ................................................................................................................................................ vi
Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................................. viii
Preface ......................................................................................................................................................... ix
Acronyms ..................................................................................................................................................... x
Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................... xi
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 15
1.1 Background ................................................................................................................................. 15
1.2 Purpose of Hazard and Risk Mapping at National Level ............................................................ 15
1.3 Assumption .................................................................................................................................. 16
1.4 Project, Implementing organizations and partners ...................................................................... 16
1.5 Project Objective ......................................................................................................................... 16
1.6 Scope of the Assignment ............................................................................................................. 17
1.7 Stakeholder Involve in the Project .............................................................................................. 17
1.8 Methodology ............................................................................................................................... 17
1.9 Project Outcomes ........................................................................................................................ 17
2 Baseline Data and Information .......................................................................................................... 19
2.1 Natural Disaster Profile of Nepal ................................................................................................ 19
2.1.1 Earthquake Hazards ............................................................................................................. 19
2.1.2 Riverine and Flash Floods .................................................................................................... 19
2.1.3 Drought ................................................................................................................................ 19
2.1.4 Landslides ............................................................................................................................ 20
2.1.5 Epidemics ............................................................................................................................. 20
2.2 Trend Analysis of Disasters ........................................................................................................ 20
2.3 Source of Project Related Data ................................................................................................... 21
2.4 Administrative boundaries .......................................................................................................... 23
2.4.1 Nepal Geographical Development Region (Geo-Development Region) ............................. 23
2.4.2 VDC (Village Development Commitees) Map .................................................................... 23
2.5 Land Cover / Land Use ............................................................................................................... 24
2.5.1 Classification of land cover .................................................................................................. 24
2.5.2 Land cover distribution ........................................................................................................ 24
2.6 Housing Infrastructure ................................................................................................................ 25
2.7 Health Infrastructure ................................................................................................................... 26
2.7.1 Classes of health infrastructure ............................................................................................ 26
2.7.2 Number of health infrastructure .......................................................................................... 26
2.7.3 Density maps with number of health infrastructure ............................................................ 26
2.8 Education sector .......................................................................................................................... 27
2.8.1 Type of education institutions ............................................................................................. 27
2.8.2 Education Distribution ......................................................................................................... 27
2.9 Fishery sector .............................................................................................................................. 28
2.10 Irrigation infrastructure sector .................................................................................................... 29
2.10.1 Surface irrigation ................................................................................................................. 29
2.10.2 Ground water irrigation ....................................................................................................... 29
2.10.3 Non-conventional irrigation (NCI)...................................................................................... 30
2.10.4 Map of irrigation area .......................................................................................................... 30
2.11 Agriculture sector ........................................................................................................................ 31
2.12 Transportation sector .................................................................................................................. 32
2.12.1 Type of transportation ......................................................................................................... 32
2.12.2 Road ..................................................................................................................................... 32
2.13 Industry sector ............................................................................................................................. 33
2.14 Power sector ................................................................................................................................ 34
2.15 Tourism sector ............................................................................................................................ 35
2.16 Mining sector .............................................................................................................................. 36
2.17 Trade and financial institutions sector ........................................................................................ 36
2.17.1 Bank density ........................................................................................................................ 36
2.17.2 Cooperatives density ............................................................................................................ 37
2.18 Ground elevation ......................................................................................................................... 38
2.18.1 Elevation .............................................................................................................................. 38
2.18.2 Slope .................................................................................................................................... 38
2.18.3 Source of data for elevation ................................................................................................. 38
2.19 Demographic data ....................................................................................................................... 39
2.19.1 Population density ............................................................................................................... 39
2.19.2 Urban to district population ratio (ICIMOD and CBS, 2003b) ........................................... 39
2.19.3 Aged dependency ratio (ICIMOD and CBS, 2003b) .......................................................... 39
3 Hazard Assessment ............................................................................................................................ 40
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