Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk

Draws from multiple perspective of the Gorkha earthquake in 2015 to inform Disaster Risk Reduction research and practice

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt
Part I: Earthquake Preparedness and Response .- 1. Introduction to the Gorkha earthquake; Hanna Ruszczyk and Tom Robinson .- 2. Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET's Experience; Amod M. Dixit et atl. .- 3. The First 100 Hours: Emergency Response to the Gorkha Earthquake; Gopi Basyal .- 4. Health and the Nepal Earthquake: Ways Forward; Ramjee Bhandari, Chandika Shrestha and Shiva Raj Mishra .- 5. The Science of Earthquake Forecasting: What's Next for Nepal and the Himalayan Region?; Sanchita Neupane .- 6. Disaster Games and the Role of Science for Informing High-Level Emergency Response Planning for Nepal; Tom Robinson .- Part II: Disciplinary Perspectives .- 7. Communities in the Aftermath of Nepal's Earthquake; Ben Campbell .- 8. The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around; Hanna Ruszczyk .- 9. Green Social Work and the Uptake by the Nepal School of Social Work: Building Resilience in Disaster Stricken Communities; Lena Dominelli .- 10. Looking Down Not Up: Protecting thePost-Disaster Subsurface Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley's UNESCO World Heritage Site; Robin Coningham et al. .- 11.Looking and Moving Forward; Tom Robinson, Hanna Ruszczyk, and Louise Bracken.