About the Authors

Jatan Debnath

Contributed equally to this work with: Jatan Debnath, Gowhar Meraj, Nibedita Das Pan, Kesar Chand, Sagar Debbarma, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geography, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Gowhar Meraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Jatan Debnath, Gowhar Meraj, Nibedita Das Pan, Kesar Chand, Sagar Debbarma, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, India, Centre for Climate Change & Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Nibedita Das Pan

Contributed equally to this work with: Jatan Debnath, Gowhar Meraj, Nibedita Das Pan, Kesar Chand, Sagar Debbarma, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geography & Disaster Management, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, Tripura, India

Kesar Chand

Contributed equally to this work with: Jatan Debnath, Gowhar Meraj, Nibedita Das Pan, Kesar Chand, Sagar Debbarma, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation G.B Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment, Himachal Regional Centre, Mohal-Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India

Sagar Debbarma

Contributed equally to this work with: Jatan Debnath, Gowhar Meraj, Nibedita Das Pan, Kesar Chand, Sagar Debbarma, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geography & Disaster Management, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, Tripura, India

Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Contributed equally to this work with: Jatan Debnath, Gowhar Meraj, Nibedita Das Pan, Kesar Chand, Sagar Debbarma, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Geography, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

Carlo Gualtieri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ CG, SK, SKS, MF and NS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples Federico, Naples, Italy

Shruti Kanga

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ CG, SK, SKS, MF and NS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Climate Change & Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Suraj Kumar Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ CG, SK, SKS, MF and NS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Sustainable Development, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Majid Farooq

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ CG, SK, SKS, MF and NS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, India, Centre for Climate Change & Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Netrananda Sahu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ CG, SK, SKS, MF and NS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Pankaj Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

kumar@iges.or.jp

Affiliation Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.