Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk

Part I. Earthquake Preparedness and Response

1. Introduction to the Gorkha Earthquake
Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Tom Robinson

2. Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience
Amod Mani Dixit, Surya Narayan Shrestha, Ramesh Guragain, Ganesh Jimee, Ranjan Dhungel, Suman Pradhan, Nisha Shrestha, Surya Prasad Acharya, Sujan Raj Adhikari, Kapil Bhattarai, Hanna A. Ruszczyk

3. The First 100 Hours: Emergency Response to the Gorkha Earthquake
Gopi Krishna Basyal

4. Health and the Nepal Earthquake: Ways Forward
Ramjee Bhandari, Chandika Shrestha, 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
T. R. Robinson

Part II. Disciplinary Perspectives

7. Communities in the Aftermath of Nepal’s Earthquake
Ben Campbell

8. The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around
Hanna A. Ruszczyk

9. Green Social Work and the Uptake by the Nepal School of Social Work: Building Resilience in Disaster-Stricken Communities
Lena Dominelli

10. Look Down, Not Up: Protecting the Post-disaster Subsurface Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley’s UNESCO World Heritage Site
Robin Coningham, Kosh Prasad Acharya, Christopher Davis, Kai Weise, Ram Bahadur Kunwar, Ian Simpson

11. Looking and Moving Forward
T. R. Robinson, H. A. Ruszczyk, L. J. Bracken

Keywords: Social Sciences, Environment Studies, Human Geography, Environmental Geography, Environmental Policy, Physical Geography