Mountain Resilience: Torrent Catchment Restoration in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEcosystems Division
dc.contributor.otherPartow, Hassan
dc.contributor.otherSherzad, Mohammad
dc.contributor.otherKnuerr, Alec
dc.coverage.spatialAfghanistan
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-13T07:29:54Z
dc.date.available2022-05-13T07:29:54Z
dc.date.issued2021-12
dc.descriptionThis document reports on a UNEP and Aga Khan Foundation demonstration project (2019–2021) applying ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in the Deh-shahr mountain torrent catchment (about 60 km²; roughly 3,000 residents) in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, where floods, landslides, and drought threaten livelihoods. It outlines the project’s context, stakeholder partnerships, and a community-led planning process using workshops, a Community-Based Natural Resource Management Committee, farmer field schools, and participatory three-dimensional modelling to identify hazard hotspots. It then describes linked interventions across upper, middle, and lower catchments, including rangeland protection, terracing and contour bunds, gully plugs, reforestation and woodlots, irrigation canal rehabilitation, a flood protection dyke, and household solar water heaters, and summarizes reported reductions in hazard impacts, exposure, and vulnerabilities.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/39982
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number66 p.
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectecosystem
dc.subjecthighland
dc.subjectmountain ecosystem
dc.subjectnatural disaster
dc.subjectenvironmentally hazardous activity
dc.subjectAfghanistan
dc.titleMountain Resilience: Torrent Catchment Restoration in the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistanen
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