Disaster mitigation discussed at Chitral seminar
Landscape of Chitral, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
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Article Author: Disaster mitigation discussed at Chitral seminar
Media Source: Dawn (Pakistan)
Date: 11 October 2018
On 11 October, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) organised a seminar in Chitral to make the community resilient to natural disasters to mitigate losses to the life in the aftermath of disasters to which Chitral was highly prone. AKAH said 136 villages in Chitral were vulnerable to snow avalanches of which 33 had been declared…
On 11 October, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) organised a seminar in Chitral to make the community resilient to natural disasters to mitigate losses to the life in the aftermath of disasters to which Chitral was highly prone. AKAH said 136 villages in Chitral were vulnerable to snow avalanches of which 33 had been declared intensively danger-prone and over a dozen others faced the glacial lake outburst floods. It was also sressed sessions should be organised with different sections of the civil society to impart training to adapt to the changing scenario in the wake of global warming.