Description: Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk : The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015, Paperback by Bracken, Louise (EDT); Ruszczyk, Hanna A. (EDT); Robinson, Tom (EDT), ISBN 303009734X, ISBN-13 9783030097349, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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, anthropology, social work, health and emergency response are discussed in a single volume. Contributions are included from practitioners and researchers from Nepal and Durham University in the UK, many of whom were in Nepal at the time of the earthquake. Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk explores the event of the earthquake, its consequences and its impacts, to provide a holistic and multi-perspective understanding of this special hazard and its significant ramifications for social, political, economic and cultural aspects of life in Nepal. Th highlights how these multiple perspectives are needed to inform each other in order to develop and shape new ways of thinking and interacting with environmental hazards. This collection of works will be of interest to students and academics of Environment Studies, Human Geography and Environmental Policy, and will be of particular relevance to those involved in risk research and managing risk and hazard events.
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Book Title: Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk : The Gorkha Earthquake, N
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Width: 148 mm
Author: Louise Bracken, Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Tom Robinson
Publication Name: Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk: the Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland A&G
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Government
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 288 g
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
