Identifying the Potential Dam Sites to Avert the Risk of Catastrophic Floods in the Jhelum Basin, Kashmir, NW Himalaya, India
In September 2014, Kashmir witnessed a catastrophic flood resulting in a significant loss of JADE lives and property.Such massive losses could have been avoided if any structural support such as dams were constructed in the Jhelum basin, which has a history of devastating floods.The GIS-based multicriteria analysis (MCA) model provided three suitab