Pakistan Association of Anthropology, Islamabad, Pakistan Special issue Sci.int.(Lahore),27(1),617-619,2015 ISSN 1013-5316; CODEN: SINTE 8 617 Jan. Feb NALA LAI AND URBAN ECOLOGY: A STUDY OF DWELLERS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT Hira Rehman, *Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry, Adnan Nasir Department of Anthropology, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, *Corresponding Author: abidgc@uaar.edu.pk ABSTRACT; The urban ecology which seriously affects the health and lifestyle of the dwellers, in case of Nala Lai poses fatal threats to their well-being. These human settlements are crushed and vocations are put at danger, monetary misfortunes are resulted and death toll is influenced. The study highlights the issues faced by the dwellers around Nala Lai, the role of disaster management administration in case of emergencies and other wise, and reveals the issues faced by the dwellers at serious risks. The study was conducted around areas near Nala Lai, Rawalpindi using a sample of 50 households. It is firmly proposed that the crisis administration authorities ought to comprehend life design in powerless territories to proficient and unbiased deal with the assets. Keywords: Nala Lai, Urban Ecology, Development, Environment INTRODUCTION Environment provides assets which constructs the livelihoods of people. The relationship between living organic entities and the surroundings in which they live represents their level of livelihood. Environmental perils are the conditions which can possibly debilitate to the surroundings common habitat and antagonistically influence individual’s wellbeing. Ecological dangers at the bowl of Nala Lai when dissected include lack of transfer of waste to robust through waste management and recycling. Waste water on the roads during monsoon rainfalls and floods due to lack of drainage systems additionally causes distinctive issues for those individuals who are existing close to the banks of Nala Lai as it is the major outlet for the waste water. Populace thickness is the way to comprehension of the effect of the individuals on the nature's turf in Rawalpindi. Rise in populace has put weight on the physical environment and impelled relocation of housing structures to rustic territories, from the wide open to the Nala Lai. Spatial stratification is most evident, as the poorest are settled at suburbs, the individuals with minimum resources are settled to the bank of Nala Lai, due to the fact that the area can be lived in effortlessly with low leases, and market price. This investigation of surge risk in Nala Lai watershed is a boulevard for captivating the considerable lot of the intelligent civil arguments in human nature. These open deliberations rely on the extremely functional issue of surge administration furthermore the thought of danger departure. Environmental health which is considered to social health has recently become extensively recognized. Changes in social expansion that are related with positive or at least expected alteration in the circumstance of the environment. Nala Lai bowl phenomena is not regular, on its banks carries on a becoming urban poor populace that has been disregarded, even abused, by the city government. Elitist city arranging has brought about enclaves of excessively expensive formal advancements. Creating countries, losses of life are much higher than in more created connections [1]. While in created nations, monetary misfortunes exceed human misfortunes. Relocation as an issue procedure can be connected with ecological risk in a few ways [2]. From one viewpoint, proximate ecological risks may impact private choice making by molding the attractive quality of a specific locals. In this case we consider natural dangers as an issue forming relocate. An environment may be a “characteristic occasion which is unsafe to people a can't be considered by them” to be the piece of the ordinary state or state of the ecological its potential for damage fluctuates with the physical parameters of the occasion and the financial conditions and political immersion of the spot of its effect [3].Common peril are danger which are brought on in light of the fact that of characteristic phenomena (risk with meteorological, topographical or even natural inception) [4]. Example of regular dangers is violent winds, torrents, earth-shake and volcanic ejection which are solely of common beginning. Avalanches, surges, dry season, blazes are socio- characteristic perils since their reasons are both common and manmade. Environment occasions get to be peril once they undermine to influence society and/or the earth antagonistically [5]. A physical occasion, for example, a volcanic ejection that does not influence people is a common phenomena yet not a characteristic peril. A characteristic danger marvel that happens in a populated region is a dangerous occasion. A dangerous occasion that causes unsatisfactorily huge number of fatalities and/or overpowering property harm is a characteristic disaster. The variables that decide how a general public has the capacity react to an environment catastrophe or disasters are further identified [6]. The incorporate assets conveyance, measure of capital interest in asset abuse, level of mechanical proficiency, kind of economies framework, related knowledge with the occasion, populace thickness, riches, level of sociopolitical multifaceted nature, and geological degree of a given commonwealth. Ecological information is coupled with data on the structure of the general public and the p be seen independently from the fiasco or disaster they wreak on people populace are connected, however unique phenomena. Translate human's reactions to calamity must consider those parts of a danger that most influence human conduct. When characteristic risks revolve into a genuine disturbance of the working of a group or a general public including boundless human, material, financial or ecological misfortunes and effect, which surpasses the capacity of the influenced group or society to adapt utilizing its own particular assets it is alluded to as a issue [7]. Numerous