Outputs (12)

The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh (2021)
Book Chapter

The unfolding economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fault lines in existing food systems in both developed (Lawrence, 2020) and developing countries (Rahman et al, 2020). Bangladesh, a densely populated and rapidly urb... Read More about The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh.

The Helping Hand in Increasing Nepal’s Urban Seismic Resilience (2020)
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Conclusion (2020)
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The changing logic of urban planning in Nepal: From informal to incremental (2020)
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Often times in the global South, urban planning guidelines and land use plans exist. The difficulties lie in implementation. Specifically, who must follow the law and where in the city must urban planning be implemented is being negotiated between th... Read More about The changing logic of urban planning in Nepal: From informal to incremental.

Introduction (2020)
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To overlook is not merely to ignore. It may involve a conscious choice to look elsewhere, or it may constitute an act of simultaneously knowing but not caring. The lack of attention given to smaller cities is a self-imposed limitation on our understa... Read More about Introduction.

Spaces of Disaster (2020)
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Gendered Invisible Urban Resilience (2019)
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Reflecting on the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, tread carefully (2018)
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Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience (2018)
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Dixit, A. M., Shrestha, S. N., Guragain, R., Jimee, G., Dhungel, R., Pradhan, S., …Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018). Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience. In L. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk (15-43). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_2

This chapter describes earthquake risk reduction efforts in Nepal from NSET’s perspective and is co-authored by a team of researchers who have been with NSET since its inception. NSET was established in 1994 with the objective to reduce earthquake ri... Read More about Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience.

Looking and Moving Forward (2018)
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This chapter, the conclusion of the book, presents emerging themes based on the disciplinary perspectives of the book contributors.

The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around (2018)
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This chapter explores how the earthquake allowed other ideas to take root in Nepal and become reality. The earthquake reinvigorated central government–level interest in implementing the National Building Code. The earthquake also created the momentum... Read More about The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around.

Introduction to the Gorkha Earthquake
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Ruszczyk, H., & Robinson, T. Introduction to the Gorkha Earthquake. In L. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015 (3 - 13). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_1