Editing Leh (section)

===Leh Old Town===
[[File:Lehpalace5.jpg|thumb|300px|Leh city seen from [[Namgyal Tsemo Monastery]] and [[Leh Palace]]]]
The old town of Leh was added to the [[World Monuments Fund]]'s list of 100 most endangered sites due to increased rainfall, due to climate change among other reasons.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.sawf.org/Travel/41309.aspx |title=Tourist Boom Brings Threat to Leh's Tibetan Architecture |publisher=AFP |date=19 August 2007}}</ref> Neglect and changing settlement patterns in the old town have also threatened the long-term preservation of the site.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007682.html |title=Ethnic Leh Houses Falling Apart |author=Tripti Lahiri |publisher=AFP |date=23 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706022236/http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007682.html |archive-date=6 July 2008}}</ref>

The rapid and poorly planned urbanisation of Leh has increased the risk of flash floods in some areas, while other areas, according to research by the [[Climate and Development Knowledge Network]], suffer from the less dramatic, gradual effects of 'invisible disasters', which often go unreported.<ref>[http://cdkn.org/2014/06/harmonising-climate-adaptation-and-disaster-risk-reduction-india Local approaches to harmonising climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction: Lessons from India, Anshu Sharma, Sahba Chauhan and Sunny Kumar, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707145104/http://cdkn.org/2014/06/harmonising-climate-adaptation-and-disaster-risk-reduction-india/ |date=7 July 2014 }} cdkn.org</ref>