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000018790 046__ $$k2017-01-09
000018790 100__ $$aJames, Leah
000018790 24500 $$aInvestigating Community Resilience in Bhaktapur District, Nepal

000018790 24630 $$n16.$$pProceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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000018790 520__ $$2eng$$aFollowing the Nepal, Gorkha, M7.8 earthquake on April 25, 2015 a research team of several academic and practitioner experts in earthquake engineering, community resilience, and risk reduction, spent a week in Nepal to document the impact the earthquake had in Bhaktapur and surrounding districts. Strategic goals of the recognizance team included ‘investigating recovery and resilience related issues’, along with the more traditional pursuits. Over the course of 8 days, two social scientists with the team collected information from 80 community members about cultural, psychological and social factors with implications for rebuilding and future disaster preparedness. Results from this rapid assessment highlight community perspective on the following topics: culturally specific disaster attributions, psychological distress, preferred means of coping, social support, community conflicts, livelihood implications and other economic impacts, and concerns with governance and corruption - providing a snapshot of the situation in the early aftermath of the earthquake. In partnership with a local Nepali organization, one of the reconnaissance team members, a social psychologist, was awarded a grant to investigate future disaster preparedness and recovery for 240 persons over a period of several months in two of the hardest hit communities in Bhaktapur district: Chhaling and Tathali. Although detailed findings from this intervention research will be reported elsewhere, some descriptive data from the work in Bhaktapur is used to augment findings from the rapid assessment. Results are situated within a larger body of literature on earthquake impacts and recovery. Suggestions are made for future research to further examine factors highlighted in this initial assessment.

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000018790 7112_ $$a16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering$$cSantiago (CL)$$d2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13$$gWCEE16
000018790 720__ $$aJames, Leah$$iAwale, Rubina$$iKhanel, Shree Niwas$$iMitchell, Courtney
000018790 8560_ $$ffischerc@itam.cas.cz
000018790 8564_ $$s146255$$uhttps://invenio.itam.cas.cz/record/18790/files/2243.pdf$$yOriginal version of the author's contribution as presented on USB, paper 2243.
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