Resilience: A Conceptual Note

Ajaya Dixit ()
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Ajaya Dixit: Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-Nepal

Chapter 6 in Initiating Dialogue on Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Edited volume), 2018, pp 97-119 from South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment

Abstract: This chapter highlights that disasters such as 2015 Nepal earthquake are opportunities to learn from so that mechanisms are put in place that can prevent the reproduction of the vulnerabilities that caused losses. It explores how to build resilience within the ongoing social and political dynamics in a multi-hazard context.

Keywords: Nepal earthquake; disaster risk reduction; resilient community building; multiple impacts of disasters on environment; disaster management; post-disaster reconstruction management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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