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Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk: The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015 1st Edition

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Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk: The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015 1st Edition Louise Bracken Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Louise Bracken, Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Tom Robinson, (eds.)

ISBN(s): 9783319652108, 9783319652115, 3319652109, 3319652117

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 6.48 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-6988794 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Government & Politics, Society Tags: Evolving Narratives, Gorkha Earthquake, Hazard and Risk, Louise Bracken, Tom Robinson

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Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk: The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319652108,9783319652115,3319652109,3319652117

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ISBN 10: 3319652117
ISBN 13: 9783319652115
Author: Louise Bracken

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.

Table contents:

Part I. Earthquake Preparedness and Response

1. Introduction to the Gorkha Earthquake

2. Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience

3. The First 100 Hours: Emergency Response to the Gorkha Earthquake

4. Health and the Nepal Earthquake: Ways Forward

5. The Science of Earthquake Forecasting: What’s Next for Nepal and the Himalayan Region?

6. Disaster Games and the Role of Science for Informing High-level Emergency Response Planning for Nepal

Part II. Disciplinary Perspectives

7. Communities in the Aftermath of Nepal’s Earthquake

8. The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around

9. Green Social Work and the Uptake by the Nepal School of Social Work: Building Resilience in Disaster-Stricken Communities