Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience

Dixit, Amod Mani; Shrestha, Surya Narayan; Guragain, Ramesh; Jimee, G.; Dhungel, Ranjan; Pradhan, Shreekar; Shrestha, Nisha; Acharya, Surya P.; Adhikari, Sujan Raj; Bhattarai, Kapil; Ruszczyk, Hanna A.

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“…In 1982, the Natural Calamity Relief Act set the first national framework for emergency response (Ministry of Home Affairs, 1982; Jones et al, 2014, p. 82). It was not until the early 1990s, however, that the emphasis began to shift from disaster response to risk reduction—a move that Dixit et al (2018, p. 16) attribute to experiences associated with the Udayapur earthquake in 1988 and the floods in 1993, which directly prompted the First National Conference on Disaster Management and Risk Reduction and the development of a new National Building Code.…”

Section: Background To Drr Policy and Resilience Discourse In Nepalmentioning

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Re‐examining critiques of resilience policy: evidence from Barpak after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal

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This paper examines three common critiques of ‘resilience’: (i) that it is a ‘top‐down’ policy discourse that pays too little regard to local specificities; (ii) that resilience policy represents a neoliberal shift towards the responsibilisation of communities and a retreat of the state from its role in providing protection; and (iii) that the focus on resilience tends to divert attention from the underlying causes of vulnerability. Using data collected after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the paper argues that these critiques have mixed salience in this context, but that (i) and (iii) in particular point to important problems in how the central government and its international partners have approached enhancing the resilience of communities. While there are benefits to considering resilience at the local level, it is important to recognise the inequalities within communities, how these might be reflected in differential degrees of vulnerability, and how they might be reinforced through resilience‐building programmes.

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Section: Background To Drr Policy and Resilience Discourse In Nepalmentioning

confidence: 99%