Community Based Disaster Management Planning and Hazard Risk Assessment for Social Security: A Case Study of TallaJohar Valley of Uttarakhand, India

Participatory research approaches are increasingly admired by academic

researchers and development institutions, facilitating change in partnership with local

communities. The present paper deals with the concept of Community-Based Disaster

Management (CBDM) and explain the impacts and community's perception regarding

different hazards. In the present paper, researchers tried to demonstrate an approach to

identifying and assessing threats in Uttarakhand's Talla Johar valley. The prime focus of this

paper is on flooding, landslide, soil erosion, and forest fire, etc. This paper assesses hazard

risks with local participation and compile the understanding of various disaster attributes

based on risk assessment.