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The fundamental factor influencing the development and expansion of glacier lakes and glacier lake outburst floods (GLOF) is climate change. The climatic variables like temperature have been used to analyze hydro-meteorological risks at the local level, and their results put impacts on stream flow patterns, soil degradation, and drought conditions occurred. Wild weather in the Gilgit-Baltistan (Hindukush, Karakorum and Himalaya HKH) has a detrimental effect on the social infrastructure. The actions have substantially changed the situation; yet, they have had a detrimental effect on the environment, the socioeconomic progress of the populace, and the main sources of livelihood, including the cattle and forestry industries. The inability to maintain an accurate inventory, categorization, and susceptibility profile of glacial lakes and newly developed GLOFs is one of the issues that Pakistani disaster planning and risk reduction efforts face. The FAO agricultural assessment report states that the floods destroyed primary infrastructure, including tube wells, water channels, household storage units, houses, animal pens, individual seed stocks, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery, and caused unprecedented scale damages to agriculture crops, livestock, fisheries, and forestry.
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Aslam, M., Hayat, R., Pari, N., Sameen, A., Ahmed, M. (2023). Climate Change, Flash Floods and Its Consequences: A Case Study of Gilgit-Baltistan. In: Ahmed, M., Ahmad, S. (eds) Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture. Disaster Resilience and Green Growth. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1763-1_14
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