Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk
The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015
Editors: Bracken, Louise, Ruszczyk, Hanna, Robinson, Tom (Eds.)
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- Provides reflections and interviews from people caught up in the Gorkha 2015 earthquake and involved in managing emergency response and immediate recovery efforts
- Includes an investigation on earthquake damage and inappropriate post-disaster responses as well as noting the limited protection offered to monuments and their subsurface heritage
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- About this book
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This book presents a range of academic research and personal reflections on the Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015. For the first time, perspectives from geography, disaster risk reduction, cultural heritage protection, archaeology, anthropology, social work, health and emergency response are discussed in a single volume. Contributions are included from practitioners and researchers from Nepal and Durham University in the UK, many of whom were in Nepal at the time of the earthquake.
Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk explores the event of the earthquake, its consequences and its impacts, to provide a holistic and multi-perspective understanding of this special hazard and its significant ramifications for social, political, economic and cultural aspects of life in Nepal. The book highlights how these multiple perspectives are needed to inform each other in order to develop and shape new ways of thinking and interacting with environmental hazards.
This collection of works will be of interest to students and academics of Environment Studies, Human Geography and Environmental Policy, and will be of particular relevance to those involved in risk research and managing risk and hazard events.
- About the authors
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Louise Bracken is Executive Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience and the Wilson Chair in Hazard and Risk Research at Durham University, UK.
Hanna Ruszczyk is a Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University, UK.
Tom Robinson is an Addison Wheeler Fellow in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction to the Gorkha Earthquake
Pages 3-13
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Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience
Pages 15-43
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The First 100 Hours: Emergency Response to the Gorkha Earthquake
Pages 45-61
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Health and the Nepal Earthquake: Ways Forward
Pages 63-74
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The Science of Earthquake Forecasting: What’s Next for Nepal and the Himalayan Region?
Pages 75-85
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk
- Book Subtitle
- The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015
- Editors
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- Louise Bracken
- Hanna Ruszczyk
- Tom Robinson
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-65211-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-65210-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-09734-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 192
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