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Environmental Analysis & Ecology Studies

Impact of Sudden Advancing of Shishper Glacier - A Case Study of Interaction between Hydrology and Natural Environment in the Karakoram Mountains

  • Open or Close Siddique Ullah BAIG*, Karim DAD and Amjad SALIM

    Department of Development Studies, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

    *Corresponding author:Siddique Ullah BAIG, High Mountain Research Center, Department of Development Studies, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Submission: August 30, 2018; Published: August 31, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/EAES.2018.04.000581

ISSN: 2578-0336
Volume4 Issue1

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Livelihood of about 44% or~40,000 inhabitants’, residing in five major villages of the Central Hunza, situated in the western Karakoram depends on the arrangement and dynamics of water irrigation networks. These irrigation channels transport melt-water from shishper glacier for irrigation and to generate hydro-power. Until 1986, there was little double cropping even in the low-elevation areas (e.g. Aliabad) due to rugged-terrain and inaccessibility of melt-water from this glacier, which depends upon the season, glacier fluctuation, arrangement and dynamics of water irrigation networks. Wheat, barley, millet and buckwheat were ancestral crops of Central Hunza.

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