Identity and coverage
- Catalogue identifier
- res-7edaef5d-f3a2-5dba-b196-d5cfb2ae0750
- Persistent identifier
- Not stated
- Resource version
- IRDR special report
- Publication date
- 30 August 2026
- Last updated
- 30 August 2026
- Metadata reviewed
- 3 September 2026
- Language
- English
- Geographic coverage
- China–Nepal transportation corridor, including the Lhasa–Zhangmu and Lhasa–Gyirong sections and debris-flow catchments in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
- Bounding box (WGS 84)
- Not stated
- Temporal coverage
- Until 30 August 2026; Baseline And Event Context
- Themes
- Debris-Flow Susceptibility, Transport Infrastructure, Hazard, Vulnerability, Risk, Geology, Cryosphere, Precipitation
Method and provenance
- Production method
- The study uses field-investigation data and geological, topographic, hydroclimatic, seismic, glacier, and glacial-lake factors. Grey relational analysis supplies factor weights; Jenks natural breaks classify hazard and risk for 1,021 catchments and highway sections.
- Provenance
- Authored by Qiang Zou, Peng Cui, Bin Zhou, Yu Lei, and Siyu Chen from named research institutions; excerpted from the IRDR Flagship Project Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction and published by IRDR.
- Validation
- Provider Published
- Uncertainty
- The report does not provide a quantitative uncertainty analysis or independent validation metric for the hazard, vulnerability, or risk classifications.
- Limitations
- This is a corridor-wide baseline risk assessment used to inform recovery; it is not an event-specific damage inventory and the seven-page report is an excerpt of wider project research.
Access and reuse
- Access
- Direct Open; open access route
- Licence
- Not verified
- Redistribution
- Redistribution not authorized
- Catalogue status
- Reviewed
- Provider page
- Open authoritative resource page
Assets
IRDR Special Report: Risk Assessment of Debris Flows along the China–Nepal Transportation Corridor
Asset bounding box not stated. Parent resource coverage: China–Nepal transportation corridor, including the Lhasa–Zhangmu and Lhasa–Gyirong sections and debris-flow catchments in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Open PDF Metadata assessed