TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhattcharya, Anirban
AU  - Feenstra, Anne (Guide)
TI  - In search of a safe home-development of a landscape plan for re-clustering earthquake affected communities : a case of Majhigaun in Sindhupalchok district, Nepal  (Also available on CD)
U1  - LA TH-0270 
PY  - 2016///
N1  - CONTENTS Abstract  i  Acknowledgements .iii  Contents  v  List of tables  ix  List of figures  xi  List of abbreviations xiii  1. Introduction . 1  2. Need for study . 3  3. Study area  5  4. Intent 7  5. Hypothesis . 7  6. Aim/Objective . 7  7. Literature synthesis . 9  7.1. How do earthquakes happen?  9  7.2. Where do they affect more? . 9  7.3. How was the study region chosen?  10  7.4. How was the site zeroed down? . 12  7.5. What is the project about? 14  7.6. What is the soil type in Nepal and the study region? . 15  7.6.1. Major soil types of Nepal . 15  7.6.2. Inferences 17  7.7. What happened in the Gorkha earthquake? . 17  7.8. Reasons for re-clustering—vulnerability of the site and landslide problems?  18  7.9. Landslide parameters? . 18  8. Case studies . 19  8.1. Sariska Tiger reserve, village relocation  19  8.1.1.1. Reason for selection  20  8.1.1.2. Inferences  20  8.2. A Study from Shuklaphanta Wildlife Reserve, Nepal- Impact of human re-location programme on livelihood  20 8.2.1. Reason for selection . 21  8.2.2. Inferences . 21  8.3. Case study- Pong Dam re-location , Himachal Pradesh, India . 22  8.3.1. Reasons for selection . 23  8.3.2. Inferences . 23  8.4. Re-building another Majhi village near Melamchi, by Zika and Thai Nepal NGO, Nepal  23  8.4.1. Reason for selection . 23  8.4.2. Inferences . 23  9. Methodology . 25  9.1. a) Site Visits  25  9.2. b) Source identification . 25  9.3. c) Preparation of Checklist, Questionnaire, Observation sites  25  9.4. d) Data verification/cross referencing . 25  9.5. e) Layers  25  10. Scopes and limitations  27  11. Ecology and hydrology . 27  12. Climatology. 29  13. Types of forests . 31  13.1. Sal Dry forest/Sal Wet Forest-100m-1100m . 31  13.2. Chir Forest . 31  13.3. Dry mixed Forest-1100m-1700m  32  14. Hydrology . 33  15. Culture and the people  35  15.1. The majhis . 35  16. Agriculture  37  16.1. Probable scopes for improvement . 38  17. Mapping of the site – larger watershed . 39  18. Mapping of the site – village scale . 42  19. Mapping of the site – village scale . 45  References  47  Appendices . 48 A1. Appendix title  48
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