Slow-Onset Hazards: Issue, Challenges, and Risk Reduction Strategies

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of slow-onset hazards, combining scientific analysis, policy perspectives, and practical adaptive strategies.

With contributions from researchers across India, South Africa, Germany, the United States, and Serbia, this book offers a holistic perspective on the management of slow-onset hazards. It presents insights into how droughts, desertification, and rising sea levels unfold, their socio-economic impacts, and the measures needed to address them. Through carefully selected international case studies, this book highlights both challenges and solutions, offering lessons that can be applied across diverse contexts. Its interdisciplinary approach, which bridges science, policy, and practice, ensures that students, researchers, policymakers, and environmental advocates gain not only knowledge but also actionable strategies to anticipate, adapt to, and mitigate long-term environmental threats.

This book is intended for undergraduates and postgraduate researchers, as well as those working in geography, geology, sociology, environmental science, public policy, and disaster management. It will also appeal to trainees of administrative jobs, planners, and practitioners working on addressing environmental challenges and policy implementation.

Avijit Sahay is currently an Assistant Professor and Head (In-charge) of the Department of Geography, Doon University, Dehradun. His works on Majuli Island have been presented in international conferences and published in national and international journals.

Pallavi Upreti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Doon University, Dehradun, and has been engaged in the field of Himalayan studies since 2014 in identifying the changing Himalayan landscape due to climate change-induced factors coupled with anthropogenic activities.

Nikhil Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Mariani College under Dibrugarh University, Assam. His work spans riverbank erosion, disaster management, cultural landscapes, and regional development, with publications in reputed international and national journals.