Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan
Natural disasters today are more severe and frequent around the world because of climate change, but no country is more vulnerable than Pakistan, which suffers from a combination of geographic, socioeconomic, and institutional challenges. This study links climate change with natural disasters in Pakistan using the lens of the Vulnerability Framework with an emphasis on floods, droughts, and heat waves. This paper uses qualitative research methods to examine how recent literature, government reports, and international databanks reveal how factors like poverty, weak infrastructure, and governance gaps amplify the impacts of climate-induced disasters. Rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall, glacial melting, and their added socioeconomic vulnerabilities have resulted in extensive displacement, economic losses, and devastative environmental degradation in Pakistan, finds. Finally, the study recommends actions to bolster resilience such as strengthening governance, making disaster preparedness efficient, and centralizing vulnerability reduction strategies within climate adaptation policy.
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Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Pakistan, Vulnerability Framework, Floods, Droughts, Heat Waves, Disaster Management
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(1) Fahad Zia
Operations Manager, Krypton FM Group, London, United Kingdom.
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APA : Zia, F. (2023). Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan. Global Political Review, VIII(II), 10-20. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2023(VIII-II).02
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CHICAGO : Zia, Fahad. 2023. "Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan." Global Political Review, VIII (II): 10-20 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2023(VIII-II).02
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HARVARD : ZIA, F. 2023. Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan. Global Political Review, VIII, 10-20.
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MHRA : Zia, Fahad. 2023. "Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan." Global Political Review, VIII: 10-20
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MLA : Zia, Fahad. "Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan." Global Political Review, VIII.II (2023): 10-20 Print.
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OXFORD : Zia, Fahad (2023), "Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan", Global Political Review, VIII (II), 10-20
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TURABIAN : Zia, Fahad. "Climate Change and its Impact on Disaster Frequency and Severity in Pakistan." Global Political Review VIII, no. II (2023): 10-20. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2023(VIII-II).02