Project Leader: Netra Prasad Timsina, PhD
Project Partners and Collaborators in Nepal : Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), Institute of Engineering (IoE), Practical Action, National Society for Earthquake Technology(NSET) ,Nepal Development Research Institute(NDRI), Lumnati Support Group for Shelter.
Duration: Feb 2019- Mar 2023
Project Description :
Disaster risk reduction goals are present in city management plans, but they are often single hazard focused, with inequitable distribution in risk reduction across different social spheres. Single hazard management shifts risk rather than reducing it, hiding rather than resolving its root causes, and missing opportunities to reduce poverty through integrated risk management. Multi-hazard Urban Disaster Risk Transitions Hub Project funded by Global Challenge Research Fund(GCRF) is an international interdisciplinary research project led by University of Edinburgh (UoE). The ultimate ambition of the research project is to reduce disaster risk of the urban poor in tomorrow’s cities. The research aims to finding ways of making urban development resilient to multiple disasters by transforming the ways in which urban development and disaster risk in managed so far. The research result is expected to facilitate the urban planning transition from crisis management to risk sensitive planning.
The project is coproduced with four city hub partners from Kathmandu, Nairobi, Istanbul and Quito. In Kathmandu, there are seven organizations working simultaneously to broaden and create new understanding on multi-hazard context, both through physical science and social science research.
SIAS will be leading the social science research in Nepal. As a part of a multidisciplinary team, SIAS will contribute to the use analytical tools to reveal how understanding of risks and the root causes of risks (URRCRs) have emerged and sustained in the city. Following its established working approach, SIAS will engage in policy dialogues to understand how changes in decision making practices can yield new understandings of risk and approaches to risk management, and drive towards more equitable and inclusive risk-sensitive development.
(The details of the research project are being finalized. The project information mentioned above will be updated accordingly)
https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/about/news/20190121/ukri-gcrf-multi-hazard-urban-disaster-risk-transitions-hub
Project Site: Kathmandu Valley
Project Lead: Dr. Dilli Prasad Poudel
Senior Research Fellow: Dr. Netra Prasad Timsina, Dr. Mani Ram Banjade
Researchers: Rojani Manandhar, Binod Adhikari
The project will be backstopped by Dil Khatri , PhD, Executive Director, SIAS.
