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Dr Hanna Ruszczyk's Outputs (35)

Empowering Women through Participatory Action Research in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts (2020)
Journal Article
Ruszczyk, H., Upadhyay, B., Kwong, Y., Khanal, O., Bracken, L., Pandit, S., & Bastola, R. (2020). Empowering Women through Participatory Action Research in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51, Article 101763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101763

The role of women in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts (CBDRR) is an area of limited academic research and continues to be a thorny issue for policy and practice. This research paper describes a comparative case study of participatory a... Read More about Empowering Women through Participatory Action Research in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts.

Ambivalence towards discourse of disaster resilience (2019)
Journal Article
Ruszczyk, H. (2019). Ambivalence towards discourse of disaster resilience. Disasters, 43(4), 818-839. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12385

This paper investigates empirically how the international aid community (IAC)—donors and practitioners—considers and implements disaster resilience in a specific country setting, Nepal, and throughout the rest of the world. A key finding is that ther... Read More about Ambivalence towards discourse of disaster resilience.

Aspirations in grey space: Neighbourhood governance in Nepal and Jordan (2019)
Journal Article
Ruszczyk, H. A., & Price, M. (2020). Aspirations in grey space: Neighbourhood governance in Nepal and Jordan. Area, 52(1), 156-163. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12562

The discipline of geography struggles to engage with urban futures on terms that are meaningful to the world's urban majority. This paper reflects the need to open up empirically grounded dialogue on aspirations and their complex connections to perce... Read More about Aspirations in grey space: Neighbourhood governance in Nepal and Jordan.

Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015 (2018)
Book
Bracken, L., Ruszczyk, H., & Robinson, T. (Eds.). (2018). Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5

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, anthropo... Read More about Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015.

Looking and Moving Forward (2018)
Book Chapter
Robinson, T., Ruszczyk, H., & Bracken, L. (2018). Looking and Moving Forward. In L. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015 (183-192). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_11

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)
Book Chapter
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018). The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around. In L. A. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving narratives of hazard and risk : the Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015 (125-139). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_8

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.

Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience (2018)
Book Chapter
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.

A continuum of perceived urban risk – from the Gorkha earthquake to economic insecurity (2018)
Journal Article
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018). A continuum of perceived urban risk – from the Gorkha earthquake to economic insecurity. Environment and Urbanization, 30(1), 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247817744927

Global discussions of risk in the disaster risk reduction literature do not necessarily reflect the range of risk as understood by residents in the urban South. This intra-urban comparison from Bharatpur, Nepal, where the Gorkha earthquake struck in... Read More about A continuum of perceived urban risk – from the Gorkha earthquake to economic insecurity.